Real New Zealand History

There are stories worldwide of the establishment deliberately destroying and covering up
historical artefacts that do not fit in with the mainstream consensus on history.

New Zealand is no different in this respect as those with vested interest in maintaining the status
quo keep the masses in the dark about discoveries that quite simply would reveal the version of
history we have been told is a lie and a farce.

Study: Manuka Honey Kills More Bacteria Than All Available Antibiotics
January 2 2017 | From: NaturalNews

Not all honey is created equal. While the benefits of raw, unprocessed honey have been well-
documented over the centuries, Australian researchers have found one type of honey, called
Manuka honey, to be better than all known antibiotics.

Manuka honey is produced by bees that forage on the nectar of Leptospermum Scoparium, or New Zealands
Manuka bush, as well as tea trees, native to Australia and New Zealand only.

Related: The End of Modern Medicine?

This remarkable type of honey not only effectively kills bacteria, but none of the bugs killed by it have been able to build up
immunity. In a world where many of the last resort antibiotics are failing against antibiotic-resistant superbugs, Manuka
honey may hold the key to fighting resistance issues, saving thousands of lives worldwide.

Manuka Honey Fights Superbugs

Dr. Dee Carter from the University of Sydneys School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences noted that antibiotics not only
have short shelf lives, but the bacteria they attack quickly become resistant as well, making them useless over time.
The report, published in the European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, claimed that Manuka honey
killed almost every bacteria and pathogen it was tested on. Unlike all antibiotics available on todays market, none of the
bugs tested were able to survive the honey treatment.

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According to Dr. Carter, there are particular compounds, like methylglyoxal, in the Manuka honey that cause multi-system
failure in the bacteria, killing them before they are able to adapt and build up immunity.

What Manuka Honey Can Do For You

Manukas biological properties range from antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antiviral, antibiotic and wound
healing, to immune-stimulatory. However, what separates Manuka honey from the rest is that its antibacterial powers
challenge even the toughest superbugs, such as the life-threatening methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

Manuka honey is marketed for cancer treatment and prevention, high cholesterol, chronic inflammation, diabetes, the
treatment of gastrointestinal problems, and eye, ear and sinus infections. However, it might be most useful in treating skin
wounds and leg ulcers.

According to one study, published in the scientific journal Peer J, chronic wounds are becoming a major global health
problem, due to antibiotic resistance issues. They are costly and difficult to treat, and bacterial biofilms are important
contributors to the delay in healing. There is an urgent need for new, effective agents in topical wound care, and honey has
shown some great potential in this regard.
Related: Pineapple juice is 500% more effective than cough syrup

For their study, researchers reviewed Manuka honey in particular as an alternative treatment for wounds because of
its broad-spectrum antibacterial activity and the inability of bacteria to develop resistance to it. Their study indicated that
honey might prevent bacterial biofilms and eliminate established biofilms.

Furthermore, they reported that Manuka honey could successfully be used to kill all MSSA and MRSA biofilms in a chronic
wound, supporting the use of this type of honey as an effective topical treatment for chronic wound infections.

In recent years, word of the biological benefits of Manuka honey has spread to every corner of the world, turning it into one
of the most popular superfoods out there. Its fame and the over-demand, however, have caused shortages, resulting in fake,
usually cheaper, products to enter the market. So, if you are going to spend your money on honey to reap its benefits, make
sure you are buying the real thing.

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The Sovereignty Of Sidekicks & John Key Era One Giant Facepalm
December 29 2016 | From: Katehon / NewZealandHerald

It should surprise no honest human being that New Zealand, along with Australia, Canada, and the
United Kingdom, is a part of historys first global empire.
This Atlanticist English-speaking empire first partially established itself after the defeat of Napoleon, and then
cemented itself more firmly after the First and Second World Wars.

Related: New Zealand Prime Minister John Key Resigns - Warned Of Arrest Status By John Kerry

It is headed by the United States, of course, but includes the United Kingdom in a grandfathered special relationship that
increasingly resembles the role a ventriloquists dummy plays in a cringe-worthy comedy routine.

The United Kingdoms former colony, New Zealand, thus, cannot honestly be described as a sovereign, independent, nation-
state, however much its citizens would like to believe this to be the case.

Rather, this small nation of fewer than five million souls continues very much as in the past, an extremely junior and
therefore even more extremely disposable sidekick who is good for a little public relations coup now and again but otherwise
of small importance.
Related: Former Head Of The NSA And CIA Makes Statements That Imply John Key Is Lying About Mass Surveillance

Before Kiwi readers throw up their hands in disgust, let it be argued that the good citizens of Aotearoa New Zealand should be
glad of this status. It gives them the opportunity to strike out for actual statehood. The imperial core may chafe and lash out,
but the stakes are so low it will likely allow full independence in the end.

The immediate obstacle remains New Zealand itself. Its elites, especially in the National Party (an ironic misnomer if ever
there was one), identify completely with the Atlanticist Empire.

This is proven by the career path of its globalist Prime Minister, who cut his teeth as a servile hatchet-man for The City of
London and whose most expensive residential property cuts a fine sky-line in Hawaii, USA.

Fortunately for New Zealand national independence, Prime Minister John Key has decided to resign his
position. This surprise move ultimately stems from the Atlanticist imperial defeats in Syria, Libya, Ukraine, and the
reversals to globalism in Britain, the EU, and the United States itself.

Sending Kiwi troops to Iraq over a year ago could even land Key in the dock at The Hague someday. He has certainly
breeched a fistful of United Nations binding resolutions, and may have directly contravened New Zealand statute law by
sending New Zealand forces to support terrorism in the Middle East.
Related: New Zealand Troops To Stay In Iraq For Another 18 months: John Key

In 2015, Key dispatched New Zealand armed forces to Camp Taji, Iraq, a former US base and prison north of Baghdad. There
soldiers train the Iraqi 16th Mountain Division, whose area of operation lies northward from Taji to the Turkish border.

It just so happens that this Kurdish region is known for the theft of oil belonging to the nation of Iraq and the sale of this illegal
commodity to Turkey, whose ruling clique uses it to launder ISIS-pirated oil from both Iraq and Syria.

Thus, the now running-for-cover, Key involved Kiwi armed forces in the furtherance of ISIS funding, arms and explosives
purchases, and terror attacks (including those in Paris, Egypt, Mali, and elsewhere).

Proof that the 16th Mountain Division is involved in this oil-running lies in the assassination of its commander outside his home
in July, 2015 (i.e., it is embroiled in a turf war over protection rights among Iraqi army units).
Related: Banker John Keys Corporate Repackaging Of War

Proof that the former Prime Minister knows this lies in the very recent Official Information Act lawsuit by Minister Ron Mark
which reveals that New Zealands armed forces are conducting absolutely no after action analyses on how the
16th Mountain Division has used its Kiwi training.

Turkeys involvement in supporting ISIS has been an utterly open secret for many, many years.

Surely the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service briefed the Prime Minister. The mainstream press has been briefing the
public on the issue since before 2013. As former US intelligence officer G. Murphy Donovan writes, Turkish support for
ISIS is the worst kept secret in Mesopotamia.

Turkey receives more US foreign aid than any other nation, apart from Israel and Egypt. This number-one son seeks and
receives permission for absolutely everything it does, including its laundering/brokering of ISIS oil and oil sales, and the
shootdown of the Russian Federations Su-24 bomber on November 24, 2015.
Related: What Is The Real Agenda Behind John Key's Drive To Change The New Zealand Flag: Due Authority - A Very
Silent Coup?

Its security services also provide ISIS with weapons and domestically manufactured explosive compounds. Most recently, its
military has invaded both Syria and Iraq in exactly those areas traversed by illegal oil and arms convoys.

And yet, the United States stoutly refuses to censure its tool, for reasons that should by now be pretty obvious ISIS is an
Operation Gladio-style manufactured enemy upon whom interventions may be blamed, because of whose existence popular
sovereignty, political liberty, and political equality may be restricted, and by whom, lastly, false flag attacks may be conducted.

ISIS resembles the Contras of the 1980s or UNITA of the 1970s. The phenomena is, at its core, a mere intensification of the
Al Qaeda model, which has served US imperialism so well since 1980. As former Reagan Administration official, Dr. Paul
Craig Roberts, states in a recent article:

Washington is not opposed to terrorism. Washington has been purposely creating terrorism for many years.

Terrorism is a weapon that Washington intends to use to destabilize Russia and China by exporting it to the
Muslim populations of those countries.
Related: Key Must Explain How GCSB Spying On Citizens Is Lawful + Pacific Action Needed Against Spy Net

The ultimate aim remains Atlanticist global hegemony and the looting of those two nations in order to repay twenty trillion
dollars of government debt, sixty-four trillion dollars of overall debt, and six-hundred and fifty trillion dollars of derivative
overhang.

This being the case, New Zealand involvement in Operation Inherent Resolve amounts to criminal participation in aggression,
theft on a global scale, and wholesale as opposed to retail terrorism. The United Nations has passed many resolutions on
these issues: for example, it declares all direct or indirect support for ISIS oil smuggling to be a breach of international law.

New Zealand statute law clearly prohibits all contravention of UN resolutions, whatever their nature, so its wilful entrance into
the ongoing violence in the Middle East, organised by the United States, the EU and NATO, is a crime of aggression.

Former Prime Minister John Key, as then commander-in-chief, has ordered New Zealand armed forces to train and
assist Iraqi military units who are culpably engaged in indirect support of ISIS. New Zealand troops, therefore,
indirectly support ISIS.

This is expressly sanctioned by the United Nations and is a violation of international law. And it must be stressed that this was
done with full knowledge. The Prime Minister cannot claim he did know that Turkey laundered ISIS oil with oil smuggled
through the operational zone north of Camp Taji.

Everyone in Iraq knows this. The Russian Federation has filmed the immense, and impossible not to notice, scale of the theft.
Footage shows at length oil heading for processing in Batman, Turkey, just across the border from Mosul.
Related: First It Was The Christchurch City Rebuild, Now Its The Skycity Convention Centre Contract: John Key
Fattening His Masters Again

With full knowledge but little concern, John Key has committed acts expressly prohibited by New Zealand statute law and is
pretty clearly subject to prosecution. This is the most likely reason for the banker-turned-politician to have resigned.

Now that John Key has removed himself from the office he has hesitated not one second to sell to Atlanticist hegemony,
perhaps the citizens of Aotearoa New Zealand can see to it that their country becomes an actual independent nation-state
with full sovereignty, complete with its own foreign policy (based on positive and respectful interaction with all nations, rather
than blind and cringing obedience to the global torture-master).

No honest human being could object.

John Key Era One Giant Facepalm

I'm not gonna lie. I'm glad to see the back end of him. Clothed, of course.
I could have chosen to dress up my column today with all sorts of nuanced, insightful, and charitable words about
John Key's departure. It'd be akin to going to someone's funeral that you consistently bagged - both publicly and
privately. Tacky.

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My motto: Why waste time being anything other than honest?

There were three issues (from the multitudes) that got to me personally during his time in power. Like everyone, it's why we
either like a politician or we don't. In 2008 I ticked National for my party vote. Like most of the rest of the country I was well
and truly over Helen Clark and Labour, with the Foreshore and Seabed debacle being the final straw for me.

Key appeared fresh and new, and above all, keen. He wanted the job of Prime Minister, and his childlike zeal on election night
was endearing. Within a year I was uncomfortable. Within two, it felt like I was sitting on a bed of nails.

I'm not sure of the exact moment I knew the Key train had uncoupled from its charisma caboose. All I know is the train
thundered on without me onboard.
Related: John Key Wants War Between Maori And Pakeha. Are You Going To Let Him?

Logically, it was likely when I realised that Key had no understanding of, or respect for, the environment. He seemed
to me to care only for running New Zealand like a huge corporation by squeezing every last dollar out of it - no matter
the downstream consequences.

I say "downstream" because my focus back then was firmly on water quality. The Key-led Government has played a massive
role in the funding of dairy and irrigation intensification since, leading in turn to the steady decline in the quality of our nation's
waterways.

I'm not so naive to think he was solely responsible for such cynical fare. However, as the frontperson for the tragedy
of losing our swimmable rivers, one must understand that some of us will never forgive such recklessness. A good
money man? Key's bold and brassy belief that he managed the Global Financial Crisis well is, shall we say, deluded. He got
lucky. Pure and simple.

I'll wager that within the next 12 months, and well before the 2017 election, our economy will match the global outlook
perfectly. It'll be munted. He is less an economic guru and more a tinny bastard, frankly.
Related: UK Minister Holds Top-Level Defence Talks In Wellington + John Key Called Out

I say this in complete awe at Key's uncanny ability to ride the rollercoaster of pure providence. Despite the poor getting
poorer, and the rich getting richer, he somehow managed to convince the wider electorate that he was a financial
whizz - as opposed to the money trading gambler he ultimately is.

Inequality has never been worse in this country, and that has to be the test. Key's reign encouraged many to hate on the poor.
Little did he and his cohorts comprehend, it also taught just as many to hate on the rich.

This will not be solved by a new face at the top, or by an obsequious media happy to create corny commentary for
those of you who actually care that he is exiting stage right.

My biggest thumbs down is reserved for the free licence he issued to a particular segment of male culture. It's never a good
thing when the public learn about the pubic. Key's predilection for appearing on trashy radio means we all possess the
knowledge - like it or not - that he doesn't trim his "downstairs", has urinated in the shower, and had a vasectomy.

Call me pass but the title of Prime Minister should mean something. Jumping in a cage and picking up a bar of soap - in a
nod to prison rape - is probably not a component of that.
Ponytail-gate sealed it. The man sent a message to the world - and I mean the world - that he was an unsophisticated
fool at best, and a creep at worst.

Since then the planet's got Trump, so maybe Key won't be remembered for those weirdnesses. However, his legacy is that he
contributed massively to the type of male culture in New Zealand that sees women as not much more than just pom-pom girls
cheering from the sidelines. On a good day.

So, those are my top three gripes, and you'll have yours. Is there any redeeming feature about Key that I could mention? Yes,
I think there is. Work ethic. He had a good one.
Related: Does John Key Run The NZ Meth Trade?

It's the end of an era that I'm glad to wave goodbye to. It was eight years of teeth gritting, face palming, guttural
groaning, a fair bit of drinking, and throwing things at the TV. If you think he's aged, you should see me.

So long John, and thanks for all the (dead) fish.

New Zealand's Israel Resolution: Peacemakers Seldom Win Friends

December 26 2016 | From: MSN

A UN Security Council resolution, calling for a ban on illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied
territories, has passed, with NZ taking a major role. Phil Smith outlines the background and the
blowback.
New Zealand has dared to go where even Egypt's strongman, President el-Sisi, feared to tread.

Related: How Britain wrought destruction on the Palestinian homeland

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi put a forward a resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlement building, but after an incredibly
inappropriate call from Donald Trump, el-Sisi withdrew it again. Exactly how Trump achieved that is anyone's guess, but
America's $1.5 billion aid package to Egypt may have been threatened.

President el-Sisi said he wanted to let Trump's incoming administration have first crack at the issue. It was obviously an
excuse. Trump's nomination for Ambassador to Israel is a hardliner who wants more settlement construction and who has
compared Jews who advocate for a 'two-state peace' to Capos (Jews who assisted in Nazi death-camps).

When el-Sisi retreated, New Zealand stepped up. Together with Venezuela, Malaysia and Senegal, New Zealand called for a
vote on the resolution, and for the first time since the Carter administration, the US declined to veto a rebuke over illegal
Israeli settlements.
The US noted that settlement construction had accelerated since the US vetoed a similar resolution in 2001, and that the
Obama administration has been warning Israel for eight years that this 'trend-line' was both making peace more difficult and
isolating Israel from the international community.

The Foundations of the Settlements

Settling population in militarily-occupied territory is contrary to the Geneva Convention, to international law and previous
United Nations rulings.

Settlement building is usually strategic. Settlements create 'facts-on-the-ground', making it more difficult to give back captured
territory (in this case, territory captured during the 1967 Six Day War). Hardliners believe the territory is theirs by God-given
right, but its return, at least in part, would be necessary for a lasting peace based on a two-state solution.

The tracts that are currently Palestinian controlled areas are an unworkable, disconnected patchwork of territories.

Related: Top Israeli General Speaks Out Against Israels Crimes Against Palestinians + Parallels Between Israel &
1930's Germany & Ten Facts Why Netanyahu Is A Criminal And That Israel Is A Rogue State

Settlements also increase local conflict by expropriating land and resources to construct and sustain the townships. Moderate
Israeli administrations have tended to restrict or demolish settlements, while hawkish governments look the other way, or - like
the current one - are gung-ho on expansions which push Palestinians into an ever-diminishing corner.
Related: Water war against Palestinians: Israel planned to supply West Bank with 40% less water than settlers

Former US President Jimmy Carter has repeatedly stressed that peace in Israel/Palestine is only likely when the Palestinians
also have a viable state, where middle class citizens have a reason to hope and work for a future. Some form of two state
solution has been American policy for decades.

Seeing this may be about to change, and after significant antagonism from Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, President Obama
apparently believes it is time to allow a line in the sand.

Kiwi Peace-Broker

A few years ago, after the successful Bougainville peace talks, New Zealand imagined a role for itself as an international
peace broker. It was a nice idea that turned out to be harder than it sounded, but it marked an increased New Zealand
confidence to act independently, for good purpose.

This week's action is a further brave step from New Zealand. It has no obvious ulterior motives, but instead seems an attempt
to simply do the right thing and bugger the consequences.
A nation like New Zealand cannot throw its feather-weight around internationally in order to win friends. Frequently, the
opposite is achieved. A friend won with one action is alienated with the next, and nations often remember sleights more
strongly than support.

The Blowback

The blowback has already begun. Israel is apoplectic and has recalled its envoys to New Zealand and Senegal, and stopped
its Senegal aid programme. It called the resolution "despicable" and "an evil decree". The Israeli Ambassador to the UN said
the vote was "a victory for terror, a victory for hatred and violence."

New Zealand was already in Israel's bad books. In 2014 Israel refused to accept New Zealand's ambassador because he was
also to act as an envoy to the Palestinian Authority. In October 2015, Israeli officials reprimanded our Ambassador after New
Zealand dared propose a Security Council resolution that dared encourage a return to peace negotiations. Palestinian
supporters were equally upset, seeing the wording as supporting Israel.

But this time is worse. Israeli-New Zealand relations haven't been so poor since 2004, when New Zealand imprisoned
'Mossad spies' for attempting to fraudulently obtain a New Zealand passport. After a year, Israel apologised and
relationships were slowly mended.
Related: Israeli ministers okay draft bill to legalize Jewish settlements on private Palestinian land despite Supreme
Court ruling

This new rift may take longer. Much of the anger is being directed at the US, where President Obama could have chosen to
veto the resolution.

But Netanyahu's conservative government will not take kindly to us fronting a resolution that pointedly calls East
Jerusalem "occupied Palestinian territory".

New Zealand's government will have known blowback was likely. It has decided that, if you ask to be on the Security Council
you need to appear from behind the parapet and take a stand.

In an era where the world's mood seems to be trending towards resentment, aggression and extremism, a country wins few
friends by calling for tolerance or asking for restraint. But that doesn't mean that working for peace and goodwill isn't the right
thing to do.

The New Zealand Road Toll Statistics They Tried To Bury

December 20 2016 | From: BreakingViews

I checked the latest road toll statistics a few days ago. Interesting. For the year from January 1, road
deaths were up from 291 last year to 300.
For the 12 months to Tuesday, they were up from 315 to 328. For driver fatalities, the figures were up from 138 to 151
(for the calendar year to date) and from 146 to 170 (over 12 months). These are not big increases, but they appear to
be more than mere statistical blips.

Related: The Rise And Rise Of Control-Freak Government

Even more interesting are some of the figures from a Ministry of Transport booklet called Alcohol and Drugs 2016.

Most of the tables in the booklet pull together figures covering the years 2013-2015 without breaking them down year by year.
They reveal that alcohol and/or drugs contributed to 12 per cent of fatal smashes.

This might come as a surprise. Given the official obsession with alcohol as a risk factor (all those checkpoints, all those TV
ads, all those earnest lectures from senior police officers every holiday period), I imagine most people would have thought the
ratio of deaths attributable to booze must be much higher.
But what especially interested me was whether road deaths involving alcohol had decreased since the legal blood-alcohol limit
was lowered on December 1 2014.

This is information of some importance, since the objective of the law change was to reduce the road toll. But you have to turn
to page 8 before you find any figures relating to the year after the new limits kicked in.

These reveal that the number of alcohol-affected drivers involved in fatal crashes actually increased from 70 to 90 in the 12
months after the new law came into effect.

This was not what we were led to expect. It is the opposite of what the new limit was intended to achieve, which was to deter
people who had been drinking from getting behind the wheel.

Opponents of the law change argued that it would punish safe, law-abiding motorists while hard-core drink-drivers
would continue to flout the law with impunity. That appears to be precisely what has happened.
Drink-drive fatalities last year were the highest since 2010. In the 20-24 age group, the number of alcohol-affected male
drivers involved in fatal crashes increased from 12 to 22 thats nearly double. For men overall, the number was up from 56
to 82.

If the numbers had gone the other way, Im sure the ministry would have been shouting from the rooftops. As it is, its hard to
escape the impression the figures were buried.

We shouldnt be in the least bit surprised that the law change hasnt delivered the promised improvement. Control-
freak policy-makers and poll-driven politicians refuse to accept that human behaviour cant conveniently be changed
by legislative decree.
Related: 8 Ways Control Freak Government Is Sabotaging Freedom And Making Life More Difficult For Us

Thats also apparent from the anti-smacking law (on average, one child continues to be killed by domestic violence every five
weeks while responsible parents risk prosecution for disciplining out-of-control kids with a harmless slap) and from laughably
ineffective dog-control rules, which have entered a whole new realm of fantasy with the expectation that owners of dangerous
dogs will obtain special high-risk dog owner licences, submit their dogs to good citizenship tests, have their properties
inspected and demonstrate they understand their legal obligations.

Yeah, right. Cant you just see gang members meekly queuing at council offices to fill in the forms and register their
blood-flecked pitbulls for obedience training?

Now heres the key point. Any benefits arising from lower blood-alcohol limits and so far there dont seem to be any should
be weighed against the social downsides.

As we brace for the annual bout of Christmas finger-wagging, we should ask whether New Zealanders enjoyment of
life has been unnecessarily diminished just to satisfy the bureaucratic urge to regulate and control.

Theres an economic cost too. Country pubs - the heart of some rural communities - are going out of business and wineries
can expect fewer summer visitors because people fret that a harmless tasting will push them over the limit.

Any supposed benefit must also be weighed against the undoubted change in the public attitude toward the police, who are
increasingly resented as bullies and harassers - unwilling or unable to attend burglaries, but never short of the numbers to run
alcohol checkpoints at all hours of the day, or to hamper law-abiding bar owners in their attempts to run a business, or to
make the staging of public events such as wine festivals so onerous that some participating companies decide that it's just not
worth the effort any more.

Comment: Anyone who still thinks the Police do not have quotas to meet for traffic and other 'offences' is deluded. It
has been established as fact and I and many others have heard it admitted.

QUOTAS = REVENUE

New Zealand's 'Unusual' Earthquake Raises Complex Questions + USGS: Early 20th
Century Earthquakes May Have Been Man Made
December 15 2016 | From: Sott / Uncensored

A devastating earthquake has hit New Zealand, but this unusual event, with long duration slip on
several faults, will also provide an astounding data set for understanding a complex tectonic region.

Map showing location of the M7.8 epicenter (star), M > 3.0 aftershocks up until 04:20 NZ time on the 18th November (n = 1,782)

New Zealand was rocked by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake on Monday 14th November. This event had unusual aspects
of slip distribution, duration, and kinematics, from which we will learn a lot about earthquake mechanics as data are
collected.

Related: Seismic Testing Presents Significant Risk To East Coast

The event that started ~100 km north of Christchurch with displacements less than 1 m, propagated northward, creating the
largest surface displacements (so far observed) near the northern termination of the earthquake rupture, at the northeast tip of
the South Island.

At this early stage, based on preliminary data released by the New Zealand monitoring partnership GeoNet, I find three
properties of the earthquake particularly intriguing:

1. Slip Distribution

The large surface displacement at the northern end of the rupture explains why aftershocks are concentrated in the north, and
why areas north of the rupture, such as Wellington, experienced more damage than Christchurch, which is closer to but south
of the epicenter.

The earthquake adds insight to the discussion of whether an earthquake knows its size when it nucleates - this earthquake
started small, and only reached large slip late in its propagation. The USGS estimates the greatest displacements were over
100 km from the epicenter.
Left: Before | Right: After

Therefore, as suggested in recent findings by Meier et al., there seems to have been no way to expect the large size of this
earthquake from its small early slip. The question remains, why did the earthquake start small and get larger?

2. Type and Number of Faults

The area of the epicenter lies in the Marlborough fault system, known for strike-slip tectonics where crustal blocks slide
horizontally. However, coastal uplift associated with this earthquake demands at least a couple of meters of vertical motion,
related to collision or subduction, as well as at least 10 m of strike-slip.

Mapping of surface displacements has furthermore illuminated slip on as many as six faults.
Related: Astonishing Nasa photos show Kaikoura land raised by earthquake

The number of faults involved may explain the relatively long duration and complexity of slip. A question is whether the faults
represent a mixture of strike-slip and thrust faults, or a population of variably oblique-slip faults; another question is whether
the fault surface traces are linked to form a large fault at depth.

3. Slip Duration

The earthquake slip lasted longer than the one-minute slip duration typically considered to calculate local magnitudes. Initial
reports therefore underestimated the magnitude.

The long duration is intriguing; slow propagation is typical of earthquakes originating from the relatively shallow subduction
thrust interface, not faults on the continents.

Related: CERN Condensed Antipodal Point

Although this earthquake was not as slow as some 'tsunami earthquakes', this may imply rupture in a weak, low rigidity fault
zone (e.g., Bilek and Lay). The earthquake occurred in continental crust, but near a transition from continental transpression
on the South Island to westward subduction underneath the east coast North Island.

It has been suggested that subducted continental crust below the current strike-slip system is dehydrating, providing fluids that
weaken the overlying continental faults.

As more data emerge, we will therefore learn a lot about how deformation is transferred from a subduction zone to a strike slip
system, - also raising questions of what happens in the Cook Strait, between the two main New Zealand islands (see
also Pondard and Barnes).

Coastal Uplift After Kaikoura Quake

USGS: Early 20th Century Earthquakes May Have Been Man Made

A new study from the USGS suggests that some early 20th century earthquakes in southern
California might have been induced (man-made) by past practices that were used by the oil and gas
industry.
A new study from the USGS suggests that some early 20th century earthquakes in southern California might have
been induced (man-made) by past practices that were used by the oil and gas industry.

In the new study, scientists evaluated the likely cause of several significant earthquakes within the Los Angeles Basin
between 1900 and 1933, together with consideration of available oil industry records over this period.

They found that several damaging earthquakes, including a 1929 event near Whittier, California (estimated magnitude 5) and
the 1933 Long Beach earthquake (magnitude 6.4) might have been induced by oil and/or gas production during the early
decades of the Los Angeles-area oil boom.

During the early decades of the oil boom, withdrawal of oil was not balanced by injection of fluids, in some cases leading to
dramatic ground subsidence, and potentially perturbing the sub-surface stress field on nearby faults.

In the middle of the 20th century, so-called water-flooding techniques were increasingly employed to compensate for oil
withdrawal and to increase production of fields that were becoming depleted. Because industry practices have changed, the
results of this study do not necessarily imply a high likelihood of induced earthquakes at the present time.

It has been widely assumed that induced earthquakes do not contribute significantly to hazard in regions west of
the Rocky Mountains, but our research suggests that damaging induced earthquakes might have occurred in the
past, said Susan Hough, USGS seismologist.

Our study further suggests that the rate of natural tectonic earthquakes in the Los Angeles basin for this time
period might have been lower than previously estimated.

Earthquake rates have increased sharply in recent years in some parts of the United States, including in Oklahoma, where
earthquakes were formerly infrequent. Extensive past research has supported the conclusion that much of this increase is due
to disposal of wastewater into deep geologic formations.

The study, Potentially induced earthquakes during the early 20th century in the Los Angeles Basin, was published Nov. 1 in
the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
Pike River: The Great Disgrace
December 13 2016 | From: Uncensored / Archvival

The recent open letter from the directors of solid energy regarding pike river - the greatest disgrace
& corrupt act of treason in new zealands history.

Solid Energy's penned an open letter defending its plan to permanently seal the Pike River mine reiterating it won't
change its stance. The company's directors maintain it's not safe to re-enter the mine, and say anyone who disagrees
is being reckless.

Related: 'The town bully just went down' - Pike River families say control of mine's access road given to them

But families of the 29 men who died in the in the 2010 explosions are protesting near the site and say Solid Energy is ignoring
expert research that shows the mine can safely be re-entered. The mine is expected to be permanently sealed by February.

According to Dr Jacob Cohens mind-blowing book Murder at Pike River Mine (on the Internet, (the NZ intelligence agencies
have been trying to censor censoring it) or it is available through Mr Lawrie Drew at Greymouth (a father of one of the victims):

1. The 29 miners at Pike River Mine explosion in 2010 were all deliberately murdered, to facilitate Pike River Coal
Ltd to collect a $100 million insurance pay-out, turn the publics attitude away from underground coal mining and
reduce opposition to open-cut mining.

This would allow BATHURST RESOURCES LIMITED (at the time registered on the Australian Stock Exchange but now dually
listed) which foreign bankers also secretly control with Pike River Coal, to overtly come into New Zealand and buy up all of the
countrys coal resources and then open cut mine it which has by now almost been fully completed!
 2. Interestingly, Dr Cohen mentions in great detail with references from Bathursts own website, that just before the explosion
in the mine, BANK OF AMERICA was aggressively buying up shares in Bathurst Resources Limited. Guess who was working
for Bank of America before he became NZ Prime Minister.

3. COLLUSION BETWEEN THE DIRECTORS OF PIKE RIVER COAL LTD, THE DIRECTORS OF THE BIG
SHAREHOLDERS OF PIKE RIVER COAL, THE NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT, THE NZ PM, THE NZ MINISTER OF
POLICE, THE NZ JUDICIARY, THE NZ INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES, THE ROYAL COMMISSION INTO THE PIKE RIVER
COAL MINE DISASTER, THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA AND THE FOREIGN BANKING CRIMINALS THAT CONTROL THE
LOT AT THE TOP has ensured the New Zealand public have been totally brainwashed about the true facts of this
monstrous crime and cover-up.

4. And just to make sure the mine victims families, or the general public cant ever know the full truth about the crime, or
even get into the mine to inspect the crime scene, and cant sue the Government, the companies or Pikes criminal directors,
the spurious rat and High Court Judge heading the corrupt, Royal Commission of Inquiry.

Oh, the quandry for the corporate 'it', such that is has intentionally failed
According to Lawrie Drew, HAS EMBARGOED ALL THE CRITICAL EVIDENCE FOR 75 YEARS! And yes, this has all been
totally censored by the incredibly vile, corrupt mainstream media!

5. This means, in simple mans terms, that the corrupt lawyers and judiciary involved all now know, that when for example
the Government Department supposedly that wanted to bring CEO of Pike River Coal Peter Whittall to trial under Health and
Safety laws (actually it was just a pretence because they all knew that it would fail) all that Peter Whittalls legal counsel had to
say to the judge in the pre-trial hearing was:

Your Honour, as all the critical evidence has been been embargoed by the Royal Commission for 75 years, we
cannot get disclosure and my client cannot defend himself against the allegations because all the evidence is
being kept secret and cannot be accessed.

Judge: Case dismissed.

6. This therefore means that the NZ Government, police, the judiciary etc. at least at the top - ALL KNOW they are a pack of
lying criminals, including the drafters of this latest Open Letter FROM THE DIRECTORS OF SOLID ENERGY.

7. All I can say is, because of the widespread indifference of the the general public in putting up with this outrageous evil, we
all deserve the judgment coming on us all. Because inevitably it will come. If they will get away with this, what will be next?

8. Apparently, PM John Key was personally given a copy of Dr Jacob Cohens mind-blowing book so he cant say he was
not informed. Isnt it rather strange to see he is abruptly resigning around the same time they want to seal up the mine.

9. Finally these devils want to seal up the entrance to the mine with a 30 metre thick plug of concrete. 30 metres! Can you
believe it? They sure do want to make sure nobody ever investigates the crime scene dont they?

In the United States of America a similar coal mine explosion occurred at the Upper Big Branch Mine not long before Pike
River explosion when exactly 29 miners were also killed. Since then, the miners families have received millions of dollars in
pay-outs and the CEO of the company concerned Don Blankenchip is now in jail.
Yet here in New Zealand, not even one director has even been charged or brought to trial. We hear about the criminal
activities of government agencies in the United States being bad, but our government and corporate criminal cabal is a
hundred times worse! 29 miners cruelly killed, and yet nobody has even received a slap on the hand. What an utter disgrace.

Frankly, if we just sit back and put if with this rot and say nothing about the blatant lies being perpetuated by the mainstream
corporate media propaganda goons, nearly five million of us, seriously, I fear for the freedoms and liberties of every single
person in this country.

Isnt it about time things changed dramatically?

Truly.

Pike River Murder Of 29 Miners & Blocking Of Re-Entry

September 25 2014 | From: Dr Jacob Cohen & 'Jack' (see download link below)

A censored book claims corruption at the very highest level of Government, Poice, International
Bankers, Corporations and Media Propoganda - naming those who should be charged.
"Ive been watching the reports on TV and mainstream media over last couple of days, and hadnt realised that your
victims families had sought, successfully, under the Official Information Act the experts reports that say the drift 2.3
km access tunnel is now perfectly safe for re-entry, yet Solid Energy have been lying about this fact, and it is plain
what their delayed decision in October will be negative!"

"Clearly, there is something in the access tunnel that they know they dont want to be revealed to either you or the public.

It all points to the fact the serious allegations in Dr Jacob Cohens book, MURDER AT PIKE RIVER MINE are 100% correct,
and that all the miners were plainly murdered.

Further, in even greater support of Dr Cohens penetrating allegations now, is the undeniable fact that government intelligence
agencies (it couldnt be anyone else) have REMOVED and CENSORED the book almost entirely from the Internet. The only
copy I could find this morning was on this site below.

You can have a look at the few remaining references to it if you GOOGLE-search it and you will find the books references are
still there, but the book has been DELETED.

Perhaps, you and the families, could have copies of the book printed up and personally delivered to all MPs.

While this would not guarantee mine re-entry and police examination of some of the crime scene, at least it will mean that the
entire government, (representing the entire nation) has been properly informed of the real truth and the blatant cover-up,
headed by big business in collusion with the NZ Prime Minister John Key, brought out so vividly by Dr Cohen."

Download a PDF copy of Dr Cohen's book here.

IRD And Fraud Prosecution Inequalities In New Zealand

December 11 2016 | From: EnviroWatchRangitikei / BruceJessonFoundation

Every year the IRD identifies about $1.2 Billion in Fraud committed by NZ business people - and
Welfare Fraud? $30 Million.
They have gone ahead and set up the technical bases last week to enable the immediate payments system
throughout Europe.

Related: New Zealand Government Has Pledged Millions Of Dollars Worth Of Taxpayer Funds To The Corrupt
Clinton Foundation & Clinton Health Access Initiatives

Every year the IRD identifies about $1.2 Billion in fraud committed by NZ business people. Yes, every year. It discovers
around $30 Million in welfare fraud (tiny by comparison).

Yet, as Dr Marriott discovered - welfare fraudsters are far more likely to be sent to prison than white collar criminals.
Remember our [Ex] Prime Minister is a banker and our country has been heisted by corporate money interests and our
welfare state is seriously in demise, thanks to the aforementioned!

Tax Fraud Vs Welfare Fraud

Im on the board of the Bruce Jesson Foundation which supports investigative journalism and each year funds a lecture on
some aspect of society.

This years lecture was by Dr Lisa Marriott from Victoria University Business School on her investigation into how and why
white collar tax fraud is treated far more leniently than welfare fraud.

Yet , as Dr Marriott discovered - welfare fraudsters are far more likely to be sent to prison than white collar
criminals. You can eatch her lecture below.
Why are those less advantaged in New Zealand society treated differently from those who are in relatively privileged
positions?

Why are white-collar tax evaders treated differently to welfare fraudsters? In the Annual Jesson Lecture in Politics for 2016,
Dr Lisa Marriott considers the circumstances where this occurs, aiming to highlight and challenge issues of equity, privilege,
and the construction of crime and criminals in New Zealand.

Related: 8 Ways Control Freak Government Is Sabotaging Freedom And Making Life More Difficult For Us

New Zealands Elite Child Abuse Rings Exposed

December 7 2016 | From: MediaWhores / Various

Minister of State Organised Child Abuse - Anne Tolley - has announced there will be no
investigation into mass child abuse by the Crown. The Crown presumably has the God given right
to abuse as many Kiwi children as it likes and its none of tax payers business.
Fearless blog Lauda Finem that specialises in exposing NZs pedophile corporate elite and the justice system that
appears to systematically protect them has recently posted allegations that the NZ judiciary have also been caught
red handed covering up pedophilia in NZ.

Related: Tolley rules out apology for child abuse in state care
Related: District Court Judge Hinton Put On Notice, Supreme Court Advised Of Attempted Judicial Paedophilia
Cover-up

Nothing new to us at Media Whores. It has long been alleged that even New Zealands chief justice - Sian Elias - is married
to a serial child sex offender - Hugh Fletcher. So perhaps it is no surprise that pedophiles are protected by the NZ justice
system.

The Justin Davis Files floating around the web seems to suggest that the NZ judiciary is actively involved in the covering up
and protection of powerful pedophiles and pedophile rings in New Zealand including some MPs, and many top
businessmen, doctors and dentists in NZ.

Whistle Blower Justin Davis gives us a first hand look into the world of these pedophiles who use sophisticated date rape
drugs to drug and abuse children in their doctors rooms, dentistry clinics, churches and even MP offices.
Sian Elias

The drugs they use mean the victims usually do not even know they have been abused, and just wake up in a haze feeling
drowsy with no memory of the abuse but they will never be the same traumatised in the subconscious for life.

Every so often we see such cases float to the surface, but they are usually covered up and suppressed as quickly as
possible the fact is they are only the tip of the iceberg..they are likely all connected, and probably using the same drugs
and drug networks exposed by Justin Davis- drugs being distributed by top doctors and dentists around NZ.

Related Articles:

New Zealander charged with sex assaults on drugged backpackers

Jury finds former St John ambulance officer guilty on all eight sex charges

Hawkes Bay doctor accused of stupefying continues bid to keep name secret

Doctor granted permanent name suppression

Auckland professional caught with 6000 objectionable images

We have also recently seen the astounding situation of NZ Judge Lowell Goddard seeming to fudge the investigation into
the Westminister Scandal in the UK where over 100,000 children are alleged to have been abused by British MPs, Lords,
Judges and high profile entertainers. The NZ judiciary right in the thick of it. They are very much an International operation
that much is clear.
Lowell Goddard

Ironically it was the blogger Cameron Slater who exposed in 2014 that at least 5 sitting MPs have name suppression for
child abuse crimes.

Slater is obviously part of same establishment with his blanket protection of John Key and his gang, but was being put under
pressure during the Dirty Politics scandal and published it on his blog one day, presumably as a threat to those who he
works with and for.
Max Key

We know quite a few MPs have had to stand down in recent years Mike Sabin was one of them but the public are not
even allowed to discuss that case on the orders of the NZ judiciary.

We are aware that Nick Smith MP recently hired a Nelson lawyer to fight child abuse ring allegations circulating online. Nick
Smith was also tied up with the Civic Crache case in which young children came forward with stories of sexual abuse. Close
to the fire it seems, is the NZ Housing Minister.

Stephanie Key

Related: MP Nick Smith Hires Lawyer To Silence Child Abuse Ring Rumours

And then there was Prime Minister John Keys joke about the escaped pedophile killer Phillip Smith (there goes that name
again) on the world stage / G20 summit. John Key obviously thinks pedophilia is quite humorous.

Related: John Key's killer paedophile joke disgusts victims' family

The very fact they call these people Ministers is highly suspect it stinks of religious overtones and we all know too well
about the reputation of Church ministers. It is all the same church in our view.
John Key and his love for little girls ponytails and his highly sexualised children. Something is clearly not quite right with
the PM.

To their credit it was Radio NZ who reported on the 1000 children who have gone missing from Child Youth and Family
over the years the Government and Anne Tolley raced to counter the fall out by relabeling the Crowns apparent child
trafficking operation with a new name.

Radio NZ appear to spend most of their time covering this stuff up, but this article was good work on their part.

Related: 'CYFS need to listen to carers'

Facebook is awash with stories of Child Youth and Family now kidnapping children as young as 4 weeks old from their
breastfeeding mothers they do this using their laws and mandatory (and unverifiable) drug tests which they enforce on
poor parents who are reliant on their communist welfare / warfare system.
Related: 'CYFS Need To Listen To Carers'

So they take a breast feeding child off its mother at 4 weeks and place it in the hands of strangers where the statistics say
they are at least 10 times more likely to be abused.

How can the public be assured these kids are not being kidnapped to order by pedophiles who are connected to these
people who pose as Government and Justice? Perhaps these freaks feed off children in fact some argue this is often
the case.

There are numerous petitions online from families who have had their children kidnapped by the State under dubious
circumstances. Can you imagine knowing your kids have been taken by people with numerous documented ties to
pedophile rings and child abuse? Horrific.

Related: Government; Hold a Ministerial Inquiry into the taking of Children by CYFS
Related: Andrew Breitbart - Was he murdered for investigating pizzagate back in 2012?

Its was exiled NZ author Greg Hallett who first claimed (quote) The judiciary shows itself to be a paedophile and crime
creation movement whose primary goal is fatherless families. in his book available on Amazon New Zealand a
Blackmailers Guide.

Greg was denied a fair hearing by the same judiciary in NZ and then had a number of murder attempts on his life before
fleeing the Country back in 2007.

Further below we post some links to recent name suppression cases in which the NZ judiciary protect child sex offenders,
many of them caught red handed, some even with child murder videos but still escaped conviction. A reasonable person
would have to at least suspect that this is in fact a major goal of the judiciary in NZ- to protect child sex offenders.

You will know them by their deeds. Very wise words. Not by the fancy titles and honors they give themselves.

You can watch Greg Halletts interview with US researcher Jim Fetzer below - Greg maintains his sense of humor even as
the mafia chase him around trying to murder him- a true National / Kiwi hero, exposing the child abusers of NZ and their
global network and risking his own life to do so...

Recent name Suppression and related cases in NZ- the Nation is literally crawling with pedophiles and the judiciary
seem to go out of their way to protect them the list includes MPs, top businessmen and many more high profile
New Zealanders. Quite a club they are running.

Jury finds former St John ambulance officer guilty on all eight sex charges

Ex MP charged with indecent assault

Cabinet ministers brother accused of abusing two 11-year-olds

National MP Nick Smith found in contempt of court

Hon Dr Nick Smith, M.P and the Family Court

 Permanent name suppression for top professional

Name suppression for Auckland professional

Doctor granted permanent name suppression

Auckland professional caught with 6000 objectionable images

But they only give name suppression to protect the victims right?

Abused sisters lose High Court bid to name attacker

Investigated teacher refused to open laptop, but can still teach

GP accused of indecent assault finally loses his right to practice

Fight to keep name suppressed in couch-surfing case

Convicted rapist back tutoring

New Zealander charged with sex assaults on drugged backpackers

Permanent name suppression for prominent New Zealander

Prominent Auckland actor on sex charges retains name suppression

Sex offender Ronald Van der Plaats release angers Te Atatu community

Name suppression for New Plymouth man who imported pornography

Invercargill underage sex accused not guilty

Acquitted prominent NZer wins permanent suppression

Man jailed for 13 years for raping daughter

Name suppression threshold too high QC

Sex offender seeks further name suppression

Kiwi entertainer retains name supression

Suppression for man on rape charge

Community work and name suppression for child porn downloader

NZ actor facing sex charges keeps name suppression

Judge declines to lift suppression of kiwi actor on sex charges

Comedian says incident was drunken accident

Wellington child pornography offender discharged without conviction

Pharmacist suppression orders lifted

Upskirt filmer gets name suppression

 Name suppression for Auckland flasher

Teachers found guilty of misconduct over relationship with 13-year-old girl lose name suppression

Some argue its the same agenda as Political Marxism and it springs from these peoples ancient religious beliefs a
scientific and/or spiritual method of destroying communities for power and control - and New Zealand is suffering under it at
extreme levels under the John Key foreign banker regime, at least as much as it did under the Marxist Clark regime.

Related: John Boener Displays Some Creepy Behaviour

Mike Gillam Thompson & Toresen

Mike Gillam Private Investigator whom pedophile exposing website Lauda Finem has exposed many times. Such people
are deployed to help with cover ups Lauda Finem claims

Kiwis need to ask themselves- are we governed by a gang of child sex offenders that feed off our children?

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Pizzagate: The Bigger Picture

Evidence and Forensics of Ritual Abuse in Australia

A Nation Breathes a Sigh of Relief as its Filthy Lying PM Resigns the John Key Holocaust is Over!
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key Resigns - Warned In Person By United States
Secretary Of State John Kerry Of Arrest Status
December 6 2016 | From: TheGuardian / Secure

Key says he would vote for his deputy prime minister, Bill English, if he put his name forward for
leader, after shock announcement that he is quitting. The Cabal is falling and Key is the latest
casualty...

We are witnessing the publicised beginnings of the fall of the Khazarian Nazionist Luciferian Cabal right now

John Key, the New Zealand prime minister and leader of the National party, has resigned in a decision that has
taken the country by surprise.

Related: Italy Referendum: Prime Minister Renzi Quits as Voters Deliver Stinging Rebuke

Warning: Brace yourself for the horrific backslapping of Cabal minions... Wake up Rebecca.

Key held a media conference in Wellington at 12.45pm local time, after informing the cabinet of his decision.

His resignation will be effective from 12 December, when National MPs will meet to select a new leader.

Key said he would vote for his deputy prime minister, Bill English, if he put his name forward. English briefly led the party to
its worst-ever electoral defeat in the 2002 election, but has since served as a successful finance minister.

Key is widely regarded as one of the most popular prime ministers in New Zealands history. He was first elected in 2008,
and recently marked his 10-year anniversary as leader of the National party.
He said stepping down was the hardest decision he had ever had to make, but there was no way he could have served a
full fourth term.

This felt like the right time to go, he told reporters;

Sometimes youve got to make hard decisions to make right decisions, he said, adding it was an opportunity to
refresh the National partys leadership of the country and hopefully clinch a fourth term.

I think one of the reasons governments fail at that fourth-term hurdle is leaders dont want to leave, everyone says
Ive seen this before. This is the chance to demonstrate newness about us.

He said he had a pretty long discussion about standing for a fourth term with his wife, Bronagh Key.

I dont feel comfortable looking down the barrel of the camera and not being honest ... On a family basis, I dont
think I could commit much longer than the next election.

He denied that Bronagh had given him an ultimatum, but said his leadership had come at a cost to his family.

Its been a decade of a lot of long, lonely nights for her and its the right time for me to come home.

His children, Max and Stephie, had suffered an extraordinary level of intrusion along with the opportunities that came with
being New Zealands first family.
Related: Radio Station George FM Warns Staff About Max Key

In the past year, Key has had to answer to questions about his sons burgeoning career as a DJ and social media
personality. Spending more time with his family was a major factor in his decision to stand down, he said.

Key said he believed the mark of a good prime minister was one who left the country in better shape than they found it.

Over time others will judge whether Ive done that. All I can say is I gave it everything I had. I have left nothing in
the tank.

One of his regrets was not getting the Trans-Pacific Partnership over the line, as well as his failed bid to change the flag.

He said he considered his economic management of the country as a mark of success, even though New Zealand had
weathered some crises during his government, including the Canterbury earthquake and the Pike River mining
disaster. Very few countries are in the financial position were in.

But Winston Peters, the leader of the New Zealand First party, said Key had consistently misled the public about the state of
the economy, and his resignation showed he was unable to muddy the waters anymore.

Key said he would remain in parliament long enough to avoid a byelection, but would step down as an MP before the next
election. He said he stood down hoping and believing New Zealand had been well served by the government I led.
Related: Banker John Keys Corporate Repackaging Of War

Comment: Key was warned to get the hell out by John Kerry (on his recent visit when he was also declined access
to a secret facility in Antarctica) because the Cabal is going down and Key is fairly well up on the arrest list.

The reason for his placement at #4 is not clear, perhaps because of his bankster history. We are told that in the #1
spot is George Soros, followed by Hillary Clinton in the #2 spot. Interesting times indeed.

He plans to remain in Auckland after leaving politics, and enter the commercial sector.

English, who has Keys backing to replace him, praised the prime ministers intelligence, optimism and integrity and said
he would be judged by history as one of New Zealands greatest leaders. He said the National caucus would now
consider the implications of the prime ministers decision, and that Key left behind a united team with plenty of talent.

He told reporters at a press conference that he learned from Key he was considering leaving in September. English had not
yet decided whether to stand for leadership, but would not rule it out.
Related: Does John Key Run The NZ Meth Trade?

Ultimately, that is a matter for the caucus ... Weve put a premium on stability and unity, and I dont think you
should expect to see the kind of public brawling that you see over leadership changes in Opposition.

The country benefits from stable, clear direction and government.

English pointed out that the caucus had only known about Keys resignation for a few hours.

Say it aint so, bro - Australian PM

The leader of the Labour party, Andrew Little, and the Green party co-leader, Metiria Turei, both wished Key well for the
future on Twitter.
Australias prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, said he was disappointed to hear from his very good friend that he was
resigning.

I sent him one very short message: Say it aint so, bro.

Turnbull said Key was one of the most outstanding national leaders in the world today, whose influence was out
of proportion to the size of the country.

New Zealand has never boxed above its weight as much as it has done with John Key as its Prime Minister. He is
truly outstanding.

Turnbulls only consolation, he said, was that Keys resignation meant he might see more of him.
Related: New Zealand Troops To Stay In Iraq For Another 18 months: John Key

When Turnbull ousted Tony Abbott in September last year, he singled out Keys leadership as an inspiration.

Abbott also praised Keys fine innings on Twitter.

Australias opposition leader, Bill Shorten, said Key had been a good friend to Australia and wished him well.
The New Zealand dollar fell more than a quarter of a cent after the announcement.

Could This Healthy 23 Year Olds Cardiac Arrest Have Been Caused by Exposure To
1080? + The Stock Deaths From 1080 Poison & How DOC Is Hiding Them In The Paper
Work
December 4 2016 | From: EnviroWatchRangitikei

We will never know because the NZ laboratoy lost her heart!

This story crossed my path recently on Facebook. It is apparently an old one, coming as it does from 2006. It is
nevertheless a shocking story in more ways than one.
Related: 1080: NZ Animals Killed For No Reason In $80m Yearly 1080 Drops

Shocking and sad for the family of this young woman, Whitney Robie was only 23. She had been hiking in the South Island,
felt unwell, and after retiring to bed, died in her sleep of a sudden cardiac arrest it was later ascertained. Now they are left
with few answers and no real closure regarding the why of her death. Read on.

She had come here to our clean green paradise to live. Sadly she died here.

NZ is not clean and green people, it is severely polluted and toxic now -and worse, our authorities lie about that

Sudden accidental deaths (SADs) do happen however this story has some anomalies which could have but have not been
solved due to a medical blunder. It is thanks to a GP who followed up on Whitney & questioned friends at the hostel where
she was staying, that we have a little more of this story than we would otherwise have known.

Losing a heart for one thing is a shocker in itself. In a random and ordinary course of events such a mistake is feasible. But
with a sudden unexplained death of a very healthy, active young woman how could this possibly happen? When the
clues to her death clearly lay within an analysis of her hearts condition, how could they simply LOSE her heart? Well lose it
they did. Or so they say.

The official story about this loss can be found at the following link:

Family face long wait over backpackers lost heart

A journalist who has been following this story for some time and says it has been shared more than 150 times now,
has re posted it on Facebook with the attendant detail from when it first became news here is the train of events
as described by her (edited for brevity & omission of personal detail):

Regarding Whitney Robie, she went hiking on her own in a 1080d area (I believe it was gel/jelly) and felt unwell
that evening, said so, went to bed and had a cardiac arrest in the night.

She was 23. From the USA, her obituary described how she was full of life, fit, loved the outdoors and had moved
to NZ for an adventure.
 She had no previous history of heart problems.

The Doctor concerned said he had gone to the hostel and spoken to the other guests straight after she died. Later
when he heard her death had been recorded as a heart attack, he advised and pressed the authorities to run tests
relating to possible 1080 exposure.

He was told however that the matter was now officially closed. Her heart was sent for post mortem and was lost
by the govt laboratory. This Dunedin GP was so concerned that he made a submission to ERMA in 2007 that
included this account.

It was his opinion that the most probable cause of her death was 1080 poisoning, and that many others in NZ over
the years have also died from it but that their deaths are either mistakenly or deliberately misdiagnosed.

A letter to the editor in 2006 commenting on the actions of the Doctor involved gives further information about the
unexplained early deaths of people working with 1080."

Read the pdf here: Cancer-deaths-from-1080

Here are some points to consider about this story:

The 1080 Reassessment Application document for ERMA Oct 2006. Section 3.3 Hazard Classifications. Sub section 4.8.2
[has the] Heart as a target organ.

Related: Invasion of the Alien Species

 4.8.2. Heart as a target organ That single or repeated sublethal exposures to fluoroacetate can have toxic effects
on the heart has been recognised for some time (e.g. Steyn 1934; Quin and Clark 1947; Hicks 1952).

In general, the action of fluoroacetate on the heart is to decrease the metabolic energy available in heart muscle,
which affects the conduction system controlling the rate and strength of heart beats (e.g. Chenoweth and Gilman
1947)

Found on page 11 of the pdf

St Johns put out their Sudden Cardiac Arrest Annual Report in June and it shows the figures for rural as opposed to
urban. The rates are far far higher in rural areas.

Rural New Zealanders had more than double the incidence of cardiac arrest than those in urban centres
approximately 160 versus 78 (per 100,000 person-years).

1080 is effective as a poison regardless of the mode of entry. It can be absorbed by the intact skin, but not readily,
however it is easily absorbed through cuts, abrasions, and is rapidly absorbed through the gastrointestinal tract and through
the lungs. One teaspoon of 1080 is enough to kill 30-100 adults weighing around 150 pounds. The potential for misuse is
great

How toxic is 1080? Toxicologist explains Professor Ian Shaw explores why and how 1080 is so toxic and asks what
is the risk of a child dying from contaminated formula.

The main point is that although these deaths may or may not be attributed to 1080, more importantly, if
nobody looks and checks then we are left with this element of doubt.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Plausible deniability is not good enough.

There are questions that are not being answered or even addressed.

It recently came to light from an Official Information request that DOC had lost 89 Kiwi , and yet they had
not tested one of them for 1080. Doing so is not rocket science.

A blogger, NZRose commented here recently:

My partner and I spoke to the poison people late last year. They are contracted to lay everything from cyanide to feratox to
take care of the pests on behalf of the NZ Government.

I will never forget them laughing as they said that the 1080 had been doubled more than a year prior to our conversation.
When we asked why they said to Kill the deer, and the activists arent even aware yet.

We responded with Well now they are. These people were too stupid to realise they were talking to the wrong people. (See
the whole comment here)
Proceed with Caution

And in the meantime, this is all evidence enough for us to be extremely wary of exposing ourselves in any way to 1080. It is
clearly a lethal product and by all reports right now, is being spread around quite indiscriminately. Finding it on walking
tracks, in streams and on public seating and anywhere near where humans are likely to be, is simply not good enough.

Families with young children walk these tracks. If you intend hiking in our bush, please avail yourself of data about when
1080 was last spread in the area where you intend walking.

You can obtain this from DOC. We recently heard of two women who were surprised during a picnic by a 1080 drop who
continue to experience illness, they believe, because of that unintended exposure. Clearly they were not aware of any
intentions by DOC to be dropping 1080 where they picnicked that day.

About 1080:
1080 is an alias for Monofluoroacetate, a chemical. Monofluoroacetate was originally developed and
marketed as an insecticide. It functions primarily by interfering with the citrate step in the Krebs cycle [5].
The Krebs cycle is the major and an essential mechanism by which all air breathing creatures utilize food
to produce energy.

It is therefore universally toxic to all animals, essentially every living thing except plants and some micro-
organisms. The degree of toxicity of 1080 is extreme, but varies somewhat among species. It is
categorised by the World Health Organization (WHO) as 1A, their highest rating, extremely toxic [1,2].

* The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies 1080 as Extremely Hazardous, most countries ban it outright.
NZ uses 85% of the worlds supply perhaps the world hasnt figured out what a wonderful thing it really is.
(References 1-5 are at the source)
*Dr Q Whiting-OKeefe (BA Chemistry, Math), MD, FACMI
What I deduct from all of this is that until the NZ government desists from using it, we the public must be very vigilant in
protecting ourselves. That to my mind includes warning others, particularly tourists who are sold our country on the basis of
being clean and green.

The corporations (and our government is one) have a priority (a legal mandate) of profits over people, so they are not going
to put your safety first. We believe it is far safer to err on the side of caution when there are any suspected or known risks.

Educate yourself on 1080 find links at our 1080 page to the many resources available. Search for further articles
exposing the risks of 1080 by searching categories at the left of any page. Note: for some reason, the Facebook sharing
button is not working in the meantime, to share please use the url. extreme care.

For further information on 1080 read here: Ban1080.co.nz/1080-facts

Watch a trailer at this link: TheGrafBoys.org/movies/preview You can purchase the Graf Boys excellent
documentaries on 1080 at this link: TheGrafBoys.org

See the TheGrafBoys Youtube channel and website for more videos.

See also: 1080science.co.nz

The Stock Deaths From 1080 Poison & How DOC Is Hiding Them In The Paper Work

Farmers talk of their losses in this clip from the Graf Boys 'Poisoning Paradise' doco. Deaths
described by those interviews include 6 cows, 13 deer, 250 sheep, 160 sheep, cattle and more.
When farmers are compensated for their losses theyre declared as, in one case, track maintenance and another,
stock food. Included for one farmer was the requirement to sign a confidentiality clause.

Complete dishonesty & whitewash by our authorities. Those mandated with ensuring your safety. Still trust them? The clip
goes on to discuss the risks of the poison entering our food chain.

These are very real risks if you listen to the eye witness evidence.
Possum exports rejected by Japan because theyd seen documentary evidence on 1080 poison drops amongst our animals.
A must watch. Please share. Show it to the nay sayers.

Related: Satanists Escape Plan Involves Killing Natives Of New Zealand

New Zealands Reputation Stained By Corruption - Case In Point: The Turitea Wind
Farm
November 30 2016 | From: TuriteaDocuments

Observers of recent world events have witnessed a pushback against corruption and the poor
behaviour of governments. Unfortunately New Zealand is not corruption free. When making such a
claim there must be concrete evidence to back it up.

This evidence, which has taken more than six years to assemble, is provided in the link below.

Related: New Zealand Government Has Pledged Millions Of Dollars Worth Of Taxpayer Funds To The Corrupt
Clinton Foundation & Clinton Health Access Initiatives

The government, which self reports on its corruption status, secretly colluded with Mighty River Power, a then State Owned
Enterprise, and our local government authority, Palmerston North City Council [PNCC], to force a gigantic wind farm on the
local community; known as the Turitea wind farm.

This was initiated during the reign of former Prime Minister Helen Clark. The consummation of a hitherto punitive, secret
contract, which cancels the governments social contract with all New Zealanders, took place during the current
administration.
The Turitea Wind Farm is comprised of 60 turbines. The 60 3MW Turitea turbines are 10 metres taller than these at Tararua three and will tower over
the city

This mafia like contract imposes a 3 million dollar penalty on PNCC if it helps anyone affected by the wind farm and further
imposes unlimited liability if it changes its mind about supporting it.

A variation to the contract shows all participants would conspire to overthrow any decision by a court impeding the
wind farm.

The wind farm was "approved" and a consent issued by a judge, Shonagh Kenderdine. Kenderdine however was not a
judge as she had been automatically and compulsorily removed, by virtue of age, from the judicial register more than
13 months prior to issuing the consent at the conclusion of a Call-In process, which has higher legal authority than an actual
court of law.

This fraud by Kenderdine is certainly not a Commonwealth first. Kenderdine, without a warrant and just a member
of the public, took a very substantial bribe to bring the secret contract to a predetermined conclusion.

No one was supposed to find out. Virtually all the executive from the Prime Minister and Attorney-General down either know
about this or are actively in on the fraud.
"Judge" Shonagh Kenderdine being awarded the Insignia if a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for services to the judiciary by then New
Zealand Governor-General Sir Jerry Mateparae

They and a range of government agencies have been contacted on numerous occasions. These agencies include the Office
of the Governor-General, police, Financial Markets Authority, LCRO, Judicial Conduct Commissioner, Ministry for the
Environment, Serious Fraud Office, Environment Court, Law Commission, Ombudsman, Office of the Auditor General, etc.

With the exception of one, which was compelled to give the game away, all have maintained a code of silence.

The factual account linked below has all the hallmarks of a systematic fraud; corruption at the highest levels of government,
subversion and alienation of existing law, illegal payments, securities fraud, media collusion, and PNCC ratepayers facing
severe financial loss, the whole nine yards, but with two laughably novel twists.

1. The Turitea and Puketoi wind farms have been deliberately located right on top of three of the country's most
dangerous active fault lines.

2. A 49% share in Mighty River Power, which owns the consents, was subsequently sold to unwitting investors.

Despite assurances the earthquake risk was not revealed. Taxpayers and individual investors will bear the inevitable losses.

Below is part of the fault line map of New Zealand. The red box shows the area of the location of the Turitea Wind
Farm. The yellow box marks the town of Kaukoura, the worst hit area during the recent 7.8 magnitude earthquake.
Click on the image above to open a larger version in a new window

The recent 7.8 magnitude earthquake causing very serious damage at the top of the South Island is a stern reminder of the
certain vulnerability of the Manawatu and Wairarapa landscape to even greater events.

Conspiratorial corruption is here laid out with all the proof needed. The main participants are identified and their
actions laid bare. Be prepared for some surprises:

For more detail see this PDF document | Also visit: TuriteaDocuments

Related: Does The Local Government Act Amendment Bill Result In Amalgamation By Stealth? Local Body
Developments

Are Microwave Transmission Weapons Of Mass Destruction Being Used To Trigger

Catastrophic Earthquakes? + New Zealand Earthquake: The Worlds Biggest Offshore
Seismic Blasting Ship The Amazon Warrior
November 17 2016 | From: GeoEngineeringWatch / TheContrail

Are unimaginably powerful microwave transmissions actively and aggressively being used as
weapons of mass destruction? If all available evidence is examined, the logical conclusions are
chilling.
Understanding the full potential of the power that can be projected from the ionosphere heater installations (like
HAARP) is difficult and complex.

Related: Worlds Biggest Seismic Testing Ship Amazon Warrior Parked On Top Of New Zealand Fault Line & 6.2
Aftershock Shakes New Zealand After Powerful 7.8 Earthquake Kills At Least 2

We all know and understand that microwave transmissions produced in our countertop ovens can heat a cup of water
(or frozen TV dinners) at blinding speed. Unfortunately, most don't know and thus have never even considered (let alone
investigated) what massively powerful and interlinked microwave transmissions can do to the planet.

When immensely powerful microwave transmissions are bounced off the atmosphere (facilitated by the atmospheric aerosol
saturation) and directed back into the Earth's strata (in a seismically sensitive location), the triggering of seismic activity
becomes scientifically possible.
The constant jet aircraft spraying of reflective and electrically conductive particles into the atmosphere (as part of the
ongoing climate engineering/geoengineering assault) is a verifiable fact. Is New Zealand, yet again, the victim of microwave
transmission super-weapons?

There is a long list of shocking facts surrounding a number of recent catastrophic earthquakes. It is imperative to examine
these facts without preconceptions or programmed denial.

Let's start with the month leading up to the extremely destructive 2010 earthquake in Haiti, MIT satellite monitoring detected
a radical increase in ULF (ultra low frequency/microwave) radio transmissions over the quake epicenter.

Spacecraft Saw ULF Radio Emissions over Haiti before January Quake

A French satellite observed a dramatic increase in ultra low frequency radio waves over Haiti in the month before
the M7.0 earthquake earlier this year.

DEMETERs is an unusual mission. Its job is to monitor low frequency radio waves generated by earthquakes.

Today, a group of geoscientists release the data associated with the M 7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti in January.
They say that DEMETER saw a clear increase in ultralow frequency radio waves being emitted from the Earths
the crust in that region in the build up to the quake.

The anecdotal evidence of electromagnetic effects associated with earthquakes is legion. Various accounts link
earthquakes with mysterious light and heating effects."

After the Haiti quake, the US military moved in and occupied the country. In addition, the long drawn-out Clinton Foundation
reconstruction debacle began.
The following year a deadly earthquake struck Christchurch, New Zealand. Many circumstances surrounding this disaster
were also troubling. Did US officials know the earthquake was coming? Some excerpts from a report on the disaster are
below.

"Was the Christchurch earthquake a terrible natural disaster, or was it a terrible MAN MADE disaster?

9 members of US Congress were in Christchurch for a summit meeting on Feb 21 & 22 but left Christchurch 2.5
hours before the earthquake hit and relocated to Wellington even though the meeting was not due to finish until the
evening of Feb 22nd.

The US Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, was supposed to be visiting Christchurch and speaking
at the summit meeting on Feb 22, but on Feb 18 announced she was cancelling her visit 3.

The Deputy Administrator of FEMA (US Federal Emergency Management Agency), Timothy Manning, just
happened to be in Christchurch at the time with a US delegation.

All of the rest of the delegation left Christchurch shortly before the quake hit except for Mr Manning who stayed
behind, and then after the quake hit he assisted with directing the emergency response.

Exactly the same thing happened with FEMA delegates with the Haiti earthquake. In Haiti , the FEMA delegates
just happened to be there at the time conducting training exercises for responding to major earthquakes."

Recent releases from Wikileaks resulted in the headline below:

Hillary Clinton Emails Show Advanced Warning of Christchurch Earthquake.

In the days before the catastrophic Japanese Earthquake (that occurred on March 11, 2016), world renowned research
institution, MIT, yet again, noted extremely profound and anomalous atmospheric heating directly over the quake
epicenter. MIT published the following report:

"Atmosphere Above Japan Heated Rapidly Before M9 Earthquake

Infrared emissions above the epicenter increased dramatically in the days before the devastating earthquake in
Japan, say scientists.

They say that before the M9 earthquake, the total electron content of the ionosphere increased dramatically over
the epicentre, reaching a maximum three days before the quake struck.

At the same time, satellite observations showed a big increase in infrared emissions from above the epicentre,
which peaked in the hours before the quake. In other words, the atmosphere was heating up."
Though the science community is desperately trying to link pre-quake atmospheric heating to some unknown phenomenon
of an atmospheric coupling with the pressure buildup in the strata, is this a rational conclusion?

The much more logical and straightforward conclusion is this, the atmospheric heating is being intentionally created by the
global network of ionosphere heaters as immense microwave signals are bounced off of the atmosphere and back down into
the planet.

Unfortunately, the science community is not allowed to even consider this possibility, let alone talk about it. In the period
preceding the decimating Japanese earthquake, US Japanese relations were very strained.

The post-quake scenario of US/Japanese relations seemed to suddenly be unquestionable, was there a connection? Was
the catastrophic quake just a natural event? Or an engineered warning to Japan?

On the 13th of November, 2016, another catastrophic earthquake struck near Christchurch, New Zealand.

The list of troubling questions surrounding this earthquake is long and growing. Below are some quotes from seismologist
Anna Kaiser (who is investigating the latest New Zealand earthquake activity):

"We don't know what we are dealing with right now but it may be it involves potentially more than one fault we
need to figure out what was going on before and after the 7.5 magnitude quake "

Kaiser went on to say this:

"We're working very hard this is looking quite complex. The epicenter was possibly just south of the Hope fault,
but it did look like "something else was going on.

The seismologist statements are only the beginning, there are many more concerning factors surrounding the latest New
Zealand Earthquake that should be considered.
In spite of the unfolding US election circumstances, in the days before the latest New Zealand quake John Kerry first went to
Christchurch, and then on to McMurdo Station, Antarctica.

The stated purpose of Kerry's visit was to examine the effects of global warming and the record low sea ice, but this trip at
this time was criticized by some.

"US Secretary of State John Kerry is scheduled to head back to New Zealand after checking out summer in
Antarctica.

He's been criticized for heading to such a remote place while the US election riveted the world

He tweeted a photograph of himself boarding C-17 cargo plane in Christchurch saying "headed to Antarctica to see
firsthand some of the drastic effects of climate change".

In Antarctica he was scheduled to meet with scientists and researchers at McMurdo Station, the largest research
station of the US Antarctic programme, as well as visit surrounding areas on Ross Island, and the US
Government's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.

He is the first secretary of state and the most senior US government official to ever travel to Antarctica.

He is hosted by the US National Science Foundation, which manages the US Antarctic program me."
In fact Antarctica has just broken a new climate record, with record low winter sea ice. After a peak of 18.5 million square
kilometers in late August, sea ice began retreating about a month ahead of schedule and has been setting daily low records
through most of September.

Though Antarctic sea ice (and global sea ice) are at record shattering low levels, why else might John Kerry go to McMurdo
Station at this exact window of time? Could the ionosphere heater (microwave transmission) facility that is constructed at
McMurdo be a factor?
Noctilucent clouds in the skies above Antarctica are an ominous harbinger of the atmospheric damage that is occurring there

"Many are under the belief that HAARP, now labeled IRI, no longer exists Operationally due to the
Gakona, AK spin. One must understand that these Frequency Generators are Globally Ubiquitous. There are so
many that are of dissimilar designs, and go by different acronyms, it is not seen as functionally one and the same.

In the case of McMurdos Radome and all of the Radar equipment there; Raytheon has had the contracts
beginning to end. The National Science Foundation and Raytheon Polar Services Company are housed in the
same building. For years the station has grown. It can house 1258 personnel and an average of 200 winter over."

Raytheon is one of the largest private "defense contractors" on the planet, this corporation is also the holder of
numerous climate engineering patents including some that relate directly to ionosphere heaters. The power structure is likely
microwaving the skies for a multitude of reasons, none of those reasons are in the interest of the common good.

Shocking atmospheric flashing lights were filmed in the skies above New Zealand as the massive Earthquake was
occurring.

Kerry returned to Christchurch from Antarctica, and then promptly (and conveniently) departed only hours before the
catastrophic earthquake struck.

The statement below is from CBS news.

 "Sec. John Kerry had left the country before it struck, and just landed in Singapore on his way to Oman when news
of the quake was reported.

Is it just a coincidence that US officials always seem to safely depart quake impact zones just prior to the event?

Then there is this headline to consider:

"Worlds Biggest Seismic Testing Blast Ship Amazon Warrior Parked on top of New Zealand Fault
Line

Is this just a coincidence?

Another point of interest, New Zealanders protested against US Oil exploration continued right up to the day before the
quake. Then there was the conflict in New Zealand over the visit of a US warship, this story was covered the day before the
quake hit.

The New Zealand Prime Minister's apparent apprehension about the US election results just days prior to the quake are also
of interest.

Finally, could known massive oil deposits just off the New Zealand coast also be a part of the equation?

Microwave transmission signals/rings near Antarctica are clearly visible in the satellite composite image shown below.
The regions of New Zealand near the epicenter have been constantly assaulted with aerosols spraying and microwave
transmissions.
The uniform ribbing of aerosolized cloud cover is a clear indication of microwave transmission exposure.

Though some "official" sources try to explain this type of cloud pattern as being a result of the underlying land topography,
this explanation is patently false.

The same patterns are now regularly seen over oceans as well as land as is shown in the satellite photo below that was
taken of New Zealand directly over the quake region.
The image below bears testimony to what the global power structure does to those that try to get in the way of their agendas
and operations.

This photo is of the bridge of the Greenpeace ship "The Rainbow Warrior". It was bombed and sunk by the French Secret
Service in order to prevent the ship and its crew from witnessing ongoing illegal and unimaginably destructive nuclear
detonations.
Over 2 decades ago I dove alone on the wreck of the Rainbow Warrior, as it laid on the seafloor off the coast of New
Zealand. I swam through the area shown above, around the ship, and examined the gapping bomb blast hole in the hull of
the once noble vessel. I hovered over the wreck and contemplated the tyranny of those who rule the world.

We are all at a crossroads, and the horizon is darkening rapidly. The power structure wields weapons of unimaginable
destruction, they can only do so because of the order-followers that carry out their insanity. As the saying goes, "we have
seen the enemy, and they are us".

It is up to us, the people, all of us, to refuse any further participation in the insanity. It is up to us to fully investigate and fully
face the whole truth. It is up to us to prioritize the fight for the greater good because we owe that debt to our children, to the
planet, and to the whole.

Make your voice heard, while you can, while it can still matter.

New Zealand Earthquake: The Worlds Biggest Offshore Seismic Blasting Ship The
Amazon Warrior

Dots: Super-supermoon, Climate change huckster American Politician, Amazon Warrior, Oil
Exploration and Mapping for drilling, Earthquake M7.5 and plates shifting generating many
aftershocks the entire length of the fault line through NZ.

The 11/13/16 quake, with a magnitude of 7.8, was much stronger than the magnitude-6.3 quake in 2011. But it also
was much deeper - striking 23 kilometers (14 miles) below the earth's surface. The 2011 quake had a depth of just 5
kilometers (3 miles). The shallower a quake is, the more destruction it tends to cause.
The evil empire are after New Zealand's unobtainium. First shake up the locals, destroy infrastructure, weaken the economy
and then extort deals to rape the resources of the country.

If you were planning to do seismic blasting off the coast of a Country, the best time to do it would be with the super full moon
wouldnt it? So that people only discuss that as the possible reason.

Kaikoura was clearly the target now destroyed, and that basin is full of the precious oil for the foreign bankers and the only
thing stopping them was the people of Kaikoura - now homeless and to be relocated by NZ Navy ship. Kaikoura is also
known for its whale populations, the area should be protected from ALL sonic oil exploration and Naval activity!

The Worlds Biggest Seismic Testing Ship - The US "Amazon Warrior" - Parked On Top Of New
Zealand Fault Line during the November 13, 2016 Earthquake!

The Worlds biggest seismic blasting ship the Amazon Warrior was photographed off Rarangi Beach in Cloudy Bay last
night. Right on top of a major fault line. The ship was met with protests when it arrived on the 13th! It was seen off the
Coast of Kaikoura on Nov. 13th, but its ETA from Panama was 10 am on Nov 14th in Wellington.
The Amazon Warrior came from Panama, was seen off of Kaikoura on the 13th and then went to anchor off of Cloudy Bay
at the top of the South Island, across the channel from Wellington. If you are steaming to NZ from Panama, and your
destination is Wellington, then there is no need to go an extra 95 miles south before arriving at your charted destination;
after a long sea journey of 7,353 miles.

This fact alone shows that there was something very fishy going on in the state of Aotearoa.

If their scheduled arrival was for 10am on the 14th in Wellington, then their trip to Kaikoura was already calculated into their
original ETA. The AW's estimated project-to-project transit speed is 17 knots or 19.5633 mph. Thus traveling the 7353 miles
to NZ will take around 16 days, and the last report in Vessel Finder was Oct 25, 2016 17:52 UTC which was probably the
departure time from Panama.

Roughly Oct 26 to Oct 13 is 19 days, so they left plenty of leeway to ensure they could make it to Kaikoura before heading
to Wellingtonhowever rather than 3 days leeway, it is only 2 days because NZ is one day ahead of Panama.

On a ship like the Amazon Warrior... to travel 95 miles distance from Kaikoura to Wellington it takes around 5 hours, so they
have 1.75 days to engage in their seismic mayhem. The ship only pulled into Cloudy Bay to avoid the protesters at
Wellington. Yea, rather obvious isn't it. By their deeds shall they shall be known.
Further information on the Amazon Warrior is available here and here.

The Amazon Warrior is owned by WesternGeco which is a geophysical services company. It is headquartered in
the Schlumberger House on the property of London Gatwick Airport in Crawley, West Sussex, and also has an office in
Denver CO. The company provides reservoir imaging, monitoring, and development services.

The company, a business segment of Schlumberger, offers 3D and time-lapse seismic surveys, electromagnetic surveys,
and multicomponent surveys for delineating prospects and reservoir management.

The giant defense contractor Raytheon, now holds all 12 HAARP patents. HAARP devises can be made mobile on ships,
such as the HAARP Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX) platform.
A HAARP phased array antenna system was transmitting the 2.5Hz ULF frequency and it triggered the 9.0 magnitude
earthquake off of Japan and ensuing tsunami.

The earthquake inducing 2.5 Hz ULF frequency was being broadcasted for two days prior to March 11, 2011during which
time the sky over Tokyo turned red as the ionosphere was pulled down into the oxygen rich atmosphere. DARPA is also
developing an airborne version of HAARP.

Related: HAARP to blame for Japan Quake?

Any country that is in the way of an oil pipeline, has valuable and strategic resources, or threatens to drop the $US dollar
standard is in danger of being chemtrailed, HAARP zapped and attacked with earthquakes and extreme weather events.

The earthquake frequency can be focused on an area during a solar flare event or full moon and once the earthquake is
triggered, a seismic research vessel like the Amazon Warrior can take readings of the shockwaves moving through the
earths crust and get an excellent picture of oil deposits even at very deep levels.

Ray Tomes:

America and NZ tested a system of using bombs to cause seismic activity and make tsunamis as a weapon in
1944 off the coat of NZ (yes, 72 years ago). "Preliminary modelling suggests that the earthquake was caused by a
rupture of a northeast-striking fault that projects to the surface offshore"

Related: What happened in New Zealand's magnitude 7.5 earthquake?

The Amazon Warrior is due to commence imminent seismic testing for oil on behalf of Norwegian Oil giant Statoil. Seismic
testing involves the dragging of a seismic airgun along the seabed, emitting seismic blasts every 10 seconds, 24 hours a
day, from now until next May.
Statoil acquired their permit from American multinational oil corporation Chevron, and the permit extends along the eastern
seaboard and to depths that are unprecedented for New Zealand.

Seismic blasting has been proven to be disruptive and harmful to sea life, including marine mammals, and is opposed by
coastal fishing interests and eco-tourism operators including Ngi Tahus Whale Watch ventures.

Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) is an American multinational energy corporation. One of the successor companies of
Standard Oil, it is headquartered in San Ramon, California, and active in more than 180 countries.

Standard Oil Co. Inc. was an American oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company. Established in 1870
by John D. Rockefeller as a corporation in Ohio, it was the largest oil refiner in the world of its time.
Tesla-HAARP-Earthquakes

Tesla quaked Manhattan around Houston St. with a small resonant device attached to a beam in his workshop/lab, and
smashed it with a hammer when it started to shake things to a dangerous level, which stopped the quake instantly.

One of his basic working principles was resonance, mechanical and electromagnetic. It's how the Tesla coil drives up huge
voltage on a low current.

HAARP is an adaptation of Tesla technology used for nefarious purposes. The microwave array broils the Upper
Atmosphere to 100F with a focused and steerable electromagnetic beam, that lifts areas of the ionosphere by heating those
areas. Electromagnetic waves then bounce back onto earth and penetrate everything - living and dead.

Along with chemtrails and this heating of the atmosphere with HAARP dries up precipitation thus producing drought. I learnt
somewhere they
HAARP uses sunspot cycles, sunspots, solar flares, hurricanes, fault tension build ups etc... for a EMF assisted corporate-
political warfare. HAARP is boost assist and director of natural energies. They can even reflect of the moon to generate
massive explosions.

On the HAARP web site in 2001 discussed successful moon bounce experiments (done since the 1960's by HAM radio
operators) see: HAARP array may use Moon as a reflector to reach distant targets on Earth to create Nuclear-Sized
Explosions Without Radiation!. In order to target the moon you need a steerable array and three arrays minimum are
required.

Related: HAARP likely not Primary Ionospheric array in Alaska

HAARP is capable of creating weather like hurricanes and tornadoes and tsunamis and earthquakes. It is also capable of
altering peoples moods.
NASA tomographic image of the subducted Farallon Plate in the mantle beneath eastern North America

Earth tomography is used by the oil and gas industry to find deposits. Tomography refers to imaging by sections or
sectioning, through the use of any kind of penetrating wave or mechanical method. ELF waves or extremely low frequency
waves can trigger an earthquake on faults that have built up tension.

Thus a ship like Amazon Warrior with even weak exploratory ELF waves can trigger fault lines into concussive domino effect
earthquakes of any magnitude depending on how much tension is held in the tectonic ridges.

HAARP Weapon How to Make an Earthquake

Conclusion

It appears that the earthquake was accidentally triggered by the Amazon Warrior's exploratory ELF waves...then they
quickly pulled out of the area to avoid being held responsible, but didn't go to Wellington due to the protest, and possible
fear of reprisal from the New Zealand Navy.

However it is illegal to travel through New Zealand waters and conduct personal "business" PRIOR to checking in officially
at one's port of entry first.

I conclude that the 11/13 quakes were accidentally triggered by an oil exploratory vessel working for Chevron. So
Chevron should be made responsible for picking up the tab for repairing the damage to the countrys infrastructure
and the lives of the people by this little chiropractic adjustment to the backbone of New Zealand.
The ship went about their business conducting their "research" in New Zealand territorial waters PRIOR to officially
checking in with customs.

Plus this sortie was premeditated due to the original ETA, and so their actions were criminal and secretive... by going for the
gold (oil) first before being invited into the country.

However reading the shenanigans of US officials in Christchurch before and after the 2011 quake....it appears that the
11/13/16 quake swarm was likely deliberate, and appears to be an act of economic war.

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New Zealand on NASA EOSDIS Worldview: A Collection of Various Screenshots / 2016

Goldman Sachs And the Sacking of New Zealand

Goldman Sachs appears to be undertaking economic warfare on areas to drive up the prices of its commodities
and stocks, and to lay claim to resources.
Canadian wildfires, pipeline attacks in Nigeria and the Gulf Oil Spill are likely sabotage undertaken by Goldman Sachs to
drive up prices for its own benefit.

In New Zealand now, the Christchurch and Kaikoura quakes and the Rena shipwreck toxic spill event are acts of
war against a sovereign nation for economic gain and to intimidate and demoralize Kiwis into submission to the
poisoning and sacking of their country.

On 5 October 2011 the Rena ran aground near Tauranga, New Zealand, resulting in an oil spill. The spill has been
described as New Zealand's worst maritime environmental disaster.
The ship was carrying 1,368 containers, eight of which contained hazardous materials, as well as 1,700 tonnes of heavy fuel
oil and 200 tonnes of marine diesel oil.

Related: Rena Oil Spill

The election of the ex-Goldman Sachs exec John Keys is key to the implementation of the disaster capitalization
and resource rape of New Zealand.

Related: Goldman Sachs Plans for the depopulation of the East Coast of New Zealand for Oil & Gas Drilling by BP,
Shell Oil & Todd Energy

Goldman Sachs Now Sees Chevron Better Off Than Exxon Mobil. Goldman Sachs is now buying and selling enough natural
gas to make it one of the key players on the market - even reportedly overtaking oil major Exxon Mobil and Chevron.
According to a recent regulatory filing, Goldman Sachs bought and sold 1.2 trillion cubic feet of physical gas in the U.S. in
2015, which equates to 25 percent of the countrys residential consumption and more than double its 2013 volumes.

These figures turn Goldman Sachs and its J Aron commodities division into the seventh largest gas marketer in North
America.

Related: Goldman Sachs Is Now Bigger Than Exxon, Chevron in Nat Gas Trading

Goldman Sachs, Chevron, the owners of the Amazon Warrior and the American Military Industrial Machine should be
charged with war crimes, deliberate environmental sabotage and held accountable to damages.

John Kerry is in Bed with Goldman Sachs as is Evidenced by their Joint white Washing Projects
Secretary of State John Kerry and Lloyd C. Blankfein, chairman and CEO of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS),
in partnership with Harvard Kennedy School have announced the first-ever cross-border exchange and leadership program
to support emerging women leaders across the private and non-profit sectors in the Middle East and Northern Africa.

Senator John Kerry appears to be Goldman Sachs running man, or rather flying manbut appears to be innocent of their
crimes of international disaster capitalism.

John Kerry is the most Carbon Intensive Politician on the Planet - I guess we now know why John Kerry was making a
short notice / unexplained trip to NZ right in the middle of a fierce US elitecon.
He went to Antarctica, which has a HAARP at the US base. Kerry is said to be on a climate saving mission. Speaking
Sunday in Wellington, New Zealand before flying to Oman via Singaporeafter NZ he flew to Oman, and another Arab Gulf
states and then Morocco before winging to Peru and then back home.

John Kerrys current trip could be said to be responsible for 853.4 metric tons of CO2 as many as 52 average Americans
produce in a year. The average CO2 emission for aircraft at 53.3 pounds per air mile. [ CarbonFootprint.com ]

Worlds Biggest Seismic Testing Ship - Amazon Warrior - Parked On Top Of New
Zealand Fault Line & 6.2 Aftershock Shakes New Zealand After Powerful 7.8
Earthquake Kills At Least 2
November 15 2016 | From: MediaWhores / RT / Various

If you were planning to do seismic blasting off the coast of a Country, the best time to do it would
be with the full moon wouldnt it? So that people only discuss that as the possible reason.
The Worlds biggest seismic blasting ship the Amazon Warrior was photographed off Rarangi Beach in Cloudy Bay
last night. Right on top of a major fault line.

Related: Smoking Gun For Christchurch Killer Quake: Hillary Clinton Emails Show Advance Warning Of
Christchurch Earthquake

Green MP Steffan Browning reported it on his Facebook page hours before the giant quakes.

The post has been shared over 400 times at time of this post:
The ship was met with protests when it arrived on the 13th:

Related: Oil protesters throw 'unwelcoming party' on Wellington Harbour

There are trillions of dollars worth of Oil and Gas around NZs shores:

Related: North oil may be worth trillions

It has now been well reported (in the real / social media) that the US State department had advanced knowledge of the
Christchurch Quakes with John Key saying they were man made earthquakes.

Surely the oil company banker would know? Plus the usual dose of foreign spies with extra passports on scene as there
always is with most of these events.
Kaikoura was clearly the target now destroyed, and that basin is full of the precious oil for the foreign bankers and the only
thing stopping them was the people of Kaikoura - now homeless and to be relocated by NZ Navy ship.

Related: Auckland Council backs away from oil exploration stance

And I guess we now know why John Kerry was making a short notice / unexplained trip to NZ right in the middle of
a fierce US elitecon...

Related: Evidence of global warming overwhelming - Kerry

US disaster relief FEMA was in Christchurch the week before the Christchurch earthquake also. Strange how they seem to
know when the quakes will strike isnt it.
Surely John Key, Simon Bridges and their fellow foreign banker mafia should now be rounded up for questioning.
People have died.

Or perhaps Kiwis should just be thankful they havent been carpet bombed, like the same club has done to Iraq, Libya and
Syria for their resources. And Afghanistan for its opium of course.
The USGS website showed that the entire "Ring of Fire" volcanic area was triggered, with over 30 local aftershocks at the time of writing

The semi-retarded Government sponsored experts are all over the media today explaining that there is no way such ships
have the technology to trigger such a large quake.

As if they would have access to accurate info on the latest military technology.

Related: The Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP) Is Dead + Earthquakes

6.2 Aftershock Shakes New Zealand After Powerful 7.8 Earthquake Kills At Least 2
A new earthquake measuring 6.2 has struck 39km west of Kaikoura, New Zealand. This is one of
the most powerful in a series of tremors that followed a 7.8 magnitude quake which struck the
town, located some 180km northeast of Christchurch, on Sunday.

Local residents Chris and Viv Young look at damage caused by an earthquake along State Highway One near the town of Ward, south of Blenheim
on New Zealand's South Island, November 14, 2016

The quake took place at around 12:30am GMT at a depth of 8.3 kilometers, and was initially measured at 6.8, but
was later downgraded to 6.2 by USGS.

Related: Christchurch: The Man-Made Earthquakes - What Really Happened, How And Why

Meanwhile GeoNet, the official source of geological hazard information for New Zealand, measured the latest quake at 6.3
and said its depth was around 35 kilometers.
At least two people were killed following the initial quake which struck New Zealand just after 11:00am GMT on Sunday
(12:02am Monday local time).

The ministry of civil defense immediately issued a warning saying that a destructive tsunami with waves of up to five
meters (16 feet) was possible. The ministry treated the possibility of a tsunami as an event of life-threatening or national
significance.

Tsunami warning sirens notified residents in coastal areas of New Zealand to leave for higher ground. Police and
emergency workers mobilized in the wake of the quake to help with evacuations. Authorities eventually downgraded tsunami
warnings around the country after people fled and the waves arrived two hours later.

We've canceled the tsunami warning in place for Wellington to Banks Peninsula. Based on all available data, the tsunami
threat has now passed, Civil Defense said in their latest bulletin, stressing that coastal areas could still experience
unusual, strong currents and sea level fluctuations.

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key confirmed that at least two people were killed. Police said one person died in
Kaikoura and another died in Mt. Lyford, a nearby ski resort, AP reported. Police also say that several people had suffered
minor injuries in Kaikoura.

A local state of emergency was declared in Kaikoura and Hurunui. Roads in Canterbury and Marlborough have been
severely damaged. Trains and ferries between North and South Islands were also affected by the quake. Authorities are
now assessing the extent of the damage from the quake.

After the initial 7.8 disaster, all trains on South Island were initially stopped but KiwiRail later resumed services between
Christchurch and Invercargill, local media reported.
Related: Tsunami alert lifted after New Zealand earthquake, aftershocks kill 2

Power and phone lines outages were also reported in addition to the structural damage to homes.

It was the most significant shock I can remember in Wellington, PM Key told reporters. There will be quite major costs
around roads and infrastructure.

Related: New Zealand earthquake: thousands stranded and towns cut off

Whose Work Was The Inspiration For The First [Supposedly] Nuke-Free Country?
November 2 2016 | From: HelenCaldicott / GregHallett

New Zealand was the first country in the world to pass national nuclear-free legislation. Marilyn
Waring reflects on how Dr. Helen Caldicotts influence culminated in the passage of the
cornerstone of New Zealands foreign policy.
If you were growing up in New Zealand and Australia post World War II, theres a chance you knew about the United
States using the Marshall Islands as a nuclear testing site from 1947 until 1962.

In an agreement signed with the United Nations, the U.S. government held the Marshall Islands as a trust territory and
detonated nuclear devices in this pristine area of the Pacific Ocean - leading, in some instances, to huge levels of radiation
fall-out, health effects, and the permanent displacement of many island people.

In all, the U.S. government conducted 105 underwater and atmospheric tests. You would have also known that the British
conducted seven atmospheric tests between 1956 and 1963 on traditional Aboriginal land, in Maralinga, Australia.
It may be that you read Neville Shutes 1957 novel On the Beach, in which people in Melbourne, Australia wait for deadly
radiation to spread from a Northern Hemisphere nuclear war.

This book made a memorable impact on Helen when she read it as a teenager. When I was a teenager, some years later, I
read Bertrand Russells 1959 classic, Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare.

Both Helen and I saw Peter Watkins The War Game, a BBC documentary drama about nuclear war and the consequences
in an English city. In New Zealand the film was restricted for children unless accompanied by an adult, so I had to get my
father to take me. The War Game won the Oscar for the best documentary in 1965.
France began its series of over 175 nuclear tests at Mururoa, in the South Pacific, in 1966. At least 140 of these tests were
above ground.

In 1973, the New Zealand and Australian governments took France to the World Court for continued atmospheric testing,
and forced the last tests underground. The testing finally came to an end in 1976.

In New Zealand the U.S. Navy made regular visits between 1976 and 1983 with nuclear-powered and, most likely, nuclear-
armed, ships.

These visits produced spectacular protest fleets in the Auckland and Wellington harbours, when hundreds of New
Zealanders - in yachts of all sizes, in motor boats and canoes, even on surf boards - surrounded the vessels and tried to
bring them to a complete stop.

By 1978, a campaign began in New Zealand to declare borough and city council areas nuclear-free and, by the early 1980s,
this symbolic movement had quickly gained momentum, covering more than two-thirds of the New Zealand population.

Helen Caldicott and I had not met up to this point, but these were shared parts of our history and consciousness when Helen
visited New Zealand in 1983.

Helen Caldicott graduated with a medical degree from University of Adelaide Medical School in 1961. She moved to the
United States, becoming an Instructor in paediatrics at Harvard Medical School and was on the staff of the Childrens
Hospital Medical Centre in Boston, Massachusetts.
In the late 1970s, Helen became the President of Physicians for Social Responsibility. This group was founded when Helen
was finishing medical school, quickly making its mark by documenting the presence of Strontium-90, a highly radioactive
waste product of atmospheric nuclear testing, in childrens teeth.

The landmark finding eventually led to the Limited Nuclear Test Ban treaty, which ended atmospheric nuclear testing.

But it was the Three Mile Island accident that changed Helens life. An equipment failure resulted in a loss of cooling water
to the core of a reactor at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Pennsylvania, causing a partial meltdown.

Operator failure meant that 700,000 gallons of radioactive cooling water ended up in the basement of the reactor building.

It was the most serious nuclear accident to that date in the U.S. Helen published Nuclear Madness the same year. In it she
wrote:

As a physician, I contend that nuclear technology threatens life on our planet with extinction. If present trends
continue, the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water we drink will soon be contaminated with enough
radioactive pollutants to pose a potential health hazard far greater than any plague humanity has ever
experienced.

In 1980, Helen resigned from her paid work positions to work full time on the prevention of nuclear war.

In 1982, Canadian director Terre Nash filmed a lecture given by Helen Caldicott to a New York state student audience.
Nashs consequent National Film Board of Canada documentary If You Love this Planet was released during the term of
U.S. President Ronald Reagan, at the height of Cold War nuclear tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union.

The U.S. Department of Justice moved quickly to designate the film foreign propaganda, bringing a great deal of attention
to the film. It went on to win the 1982 Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject. That same year, Helen addressed
about 750,000 people in Central Park, New York in the biggest anti-nuke rally in the United States to that date.

In 1983, I was serving as a member of the New Zealand parliament, having been elected eight years earlier at the age of
23.

Our parliament established a Disarmament and Arms Control Select Committee to conduct hearings on the possibility of
making New Zealand a nuclear-free zone.

During this critically important time, Helen was invited to New Zealand on a lecture tour. The documentary If You Love This
Planet was shown at her speaking engagements. I did not get to meet her, nor hear any of her lectures in person, as I was
working in parliament every night. But I did follow the media coverage.

Helen told the magazine the Listener about having observed five-star generals in U.S. congressional and senate committees
complaining that the Russian missiles were bigger than the American ones.

The Russian missiles are very big (and) inaccurate and clumsy. America has very small, very accurate missiles,
which are better at killing people and destroying targets, she explained.

A frequent message in her talks to New Zealand audiences was the redundant overkill capacity of both superpowers.
Caldicott noted to her audiences that [T]he U.S. has 30,000 bombs and Russia 20,000.

I had sat in a New Zealand parliamentary committee hearing some months earlier, when a government colleague,
brandishing a centrefold of a Russian submarine, excitedly called for us to Look at how big it is.
I had thought that no one would believe me if I had repeated such an inane banality - when an adult male was more
impressed by the size of the submarine than its capacity to destroy life on this planet.

Helens public addresses were grounded in the potential impact of nuclear weapons. Imagine a 20-megaton bomb targeted
on Auckland, she told audiences in New Zealand.

The explosion, five times the collective energy of all the bombs dropped in the Second World War, digs a hole
three-quarters of a mile wide by 800 feet deep and turns people, buildings and dirt into radioactive dust.

Everyone up to six miles will be vaporised, and up to 20 miles they will be dead or lethally injured. People will be
instantly blinded looking at the blast within 40 miles. Many will be asphyxiated in the fire storm.

Helen did not hold back, explaining that nuclear war means blindness, burning, starvation, disease, lacerations,
haemorrhaging, millions of corpses and an epidemic of disease. Helens dramatic and blunt style reduced many in her
audiences to tears.

She always ended her talks with a call to action - especially to parents - as she strongly believes that nuclear disarmament
is the ultimate medical and parenting issue of our time.

To those who would claim New Zealand was not a target she had a short reply:

Trident submarines in ports are targeted. They are a first strike target. It is much easier to destroy subs when they
are in dock than it is when they are submerged in the ocean.
In 2015, I asked Helen how she managed to deliver such bad news and yet keep her audiences with her. Being a doctor
helps because you have to learn to negotiate with a patient and with language they can understand, she explained.

You have to convert the medical diagnosis and treatment to lay language. I also have to keep them awake
sometimes by letting them laugh because it relieves their tension and because the stuff I say is pretty awful. Helen
told me that she practices global preventative medicine.

Helens tour through New Zealand in 1983 had a huge, and lasting, impact. At one stop, Helen addressed over 2,000 people
at a public event in Auckland. The librarian with whom I corresponded looking for old newspaper reports of Helens visit,
wrote to me:

Her chillingly detailed description of the effects of a nuclear device detonated over the hall in which we were sitting
remains rooted in my psyche to this day!

The other message I most recall is the dichotomy she evoked between the destructive drive of old men rulers, the
instigators of war, versus the procreative energy of mothers most impelled to oppose them - which, however
reductive, retains the compelling logic of a truism!

Helens approach was transformative in New Zealand. Helens speaking events packed auditoriums, and overflows of
audiences had to be accommodated using loud speaker systems.
People responded strongly to this woman, whose life work involved caring for children, speaking about medical effects of
fallout, and speaking without the use of the clichd military and defence ideological rhetoric that treated people as if they
were simpletons who couldnt understand.

Her speeches inspired people to act. After Helen spoke, the volume of mail delivered to my parliamentary office increased -
particularly from women.

On May 24, 1983, 20,000 women wearing white flowers and armbands and holding banners with peace signs marched
quietly up a main street in Auckland to hold a huge rally and call for New Zealand to be nuke-free. It was one of the largest
womens demonstrations in New Zealands history.

In her book, Peace, Power and Politics How New Zealand Became Nuclear Free, Maire Leadbetter writes:

I am one of many activists who think of Helen Caldicotts visit as the point when the peace movement began to
grow exponentially Helen had a magical ability to motivate previously passive citizens to become activists.

Shortly after Helens visit to New Zealand, in 1984, I advised that I intended to vote for the opposition-sponsored nuclear-
free New Zealand legislation. This prompted conservative Prime Minister Rob Muldoon to call a snap election. Muldoon told
media that my feminist anti-nuclear stance threatened his ability to govern.

The new Labour Government of 1984 passed the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament and Arms Control Act in
1987, the worlds first national nuclear-free legislation. Dr. Helen Caldicotts influence had culminated in the passage of the
cornerstone of New Zealands foreign policy.

New Zealand's Nuclear History?

Unfortunately, technically speaking, New Zealand is NOT nuclear free. We have food-irradiating facilities
(sounds super healthy) and according to researcher Greg Hallett - a whole lot more in our past...
According to Hallett, "The Wairakei Geothermal Power Station was not for the production of power, but was built by
the British Atomic Energy Commission to produce heavy water for the manufacture of nuclear weapons."

The Wairakei Geothermal Power Station was a front for heavy water production to be used for nuclear power and
the production of deuterium and tritium for hydrogen bombs. These were a thousand times more powerful than the
first atom bomb and were first tested in at least three different locations."

...

During the nuclear scare, Kiwis were buying houses in Taupo to be away from a nuclear blast, which they thought
would be aimed at Auckland and Wellington.

The funny thing was, Taupo was the only nuclear target the Russians had in New Zealand. At least one nuclear
weapon was aimed squarely at the Wairakei Geothermal heavy water power station which produced much of the
heavy water for the Western world.

...

But more importantly, New Zealand took over the production of nuclear detonators from Norway in 1961. Norway
was producing detonators for nuclear bombs during and after World War Two and they paid quite a heavy price in
casualties. After World War Two the Norwegians said, A plague on both of your houses. Take this shit away, and
they stopped production."

The Americans didnt want the job as theyd be under attack, so New Zealand held its hand up highest and
produced nuclear detonators in secret.

Thats Walter Nashs duplicitous Labour government for you [195760]. He was charged with sedition while
fronting as a man of peace and producing nuclear detonators. No doubt he on-sold any secrets gained to the
Russians. But this also has a more recent history to it.

...

If you went up the hill towards Eastbourne then took the alternative route through the gorse-covered hills to
Wainuiomata at the back of Gracefield, there was a sign saying Nuclear Research Facility. This is where the firing
devices for the nuclear blast at Mururoa were made.

New Zealand supplied the nuclear detonation gear to the French via the British. Yes, it was New Zealand that
provided the detonation gear for the atmospheric nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll from July 1966, and for the
underground tests from 1975. "

...

There was a big stink in the armed forces about the anti-nuclear protests because they violated secret military
pacts that went back years. Labour wanted the military to act against the pacts and thats why the military decided
to take part in the killing of Prime Minister Norman Kirk."

...

In 1981, the known gay and child sex abuser Colin Moyle was re-elected to Labour and became the Minister of
Agriculture and Fisheries from 198490. He assisted the Russians in placing submarine locator beacons for
Russian nuclear-powered submarines for a nuclear strike against America."

...

Helen Clarks anti-nuclear policy only applied to American ships. Russian nuclear-armed vessels were never
questioned. Such duplicity is consistent with those converted to an agenda-driven ideology from a foreign country
for non-national purposes, in exchange for hiding their sexuality. This results in treasonous activities tantamount to
war and thats what we got so very close to nuclear war from NZ.

...

"New Zealand is the only Nuclear-Free State that fails to put to print its history of manufacturing nuclear material.
As well as heavy water, New Zealand also manufactured detonators for nuclear bombs and Prime Minister
Muldoon was set on testing a nuclear power station in at least three different locations."
Someone Elses Country - The Neoliberal Revolution In New Zealand
October 31 2016 | From: AlisterBerry

The Globalist's test case trial of Corporatisation: In the early 1980s a group of free market
economists came to dominate policy at the New Zealand Treasury.

With the election of the Labour Party in 1984 and the appointment of Roger Douglas as finance minister, the new
right elite took power and began relentlessly and ruthlessly turning New Zealand into their vision of the model free
market state.

"A coherent and comprehensive account of the years which will define this country for a century to come." - New Zealand
Herald.

Smoking Gun For Christchurch Killer Quake: Hillary Clinton Emails Show Advance
Warning Of Christchurch Earthquake
October 7 2016 | From: MediaWhores / TheContrail

Recently releases Hillary Clinton emails show US State Department advanced knowledge of the big
Christchurch Earthquake on 22nd February 2011. This appears to be proof that the killer
earthquake was a planned disaster "And on cue..."

The first email sent by the State Department to head of the department Hillary Clinton was sent a full 6 hours before
the actual quake hit. Washington being 18 hours behind NZST. The second email was sent as the quake hit.

Related: Christchurch: The Man-Made Earthquakes - What Really Happened, How And Why

On the presumption the emails are real this proves advanced knowledge by the US State Department of the Christchurch
Earthquakes.
Click on the image above to open a larger version in a new window

Clinton Christchurch Earthquakes Emails Source, Wikileaks

Sources for these emails are being actively and aggressively blocked worldwide. It seems they even knew the size of the
quake: 6.3 a possible reference to the Freemasonic Kabbalah number 666. There is substantial evidence that the quake
was in fact much bigger than 6.3 magnitude.

Interestingly the US disaster relief team FEMA was also in Christchurch the week before the big earthquake, and they
flew out just hours before the earthquake hit leaving behind their head disaster coordinator

Related: FEMA In Christchurch At Time Of Earthquake Using Natural Disasters To Bring In A Police State?

If this all sounds unbelievable to you you probably need to do some research on HAARP the radio wave technology
being used to influence weather, storms and some say even earthquakes world wide and nothing new, Tesla was using
similar technology last century.

Related: HAARP: Earthquakes, Hurricanes and Mind Control

EMF conditions before the Christchurch Earthquake on 14/2/16

Bayer's Monsanto Deal To Be Closely Watched By New Zealand Farmers As Agri-

Chemical Players Dwindle
September 22 2016 | From: NationalBusinessReview

Bayer's US$66 billion acquisition of Monsanto, creating the world's biggest supplier of seeds and
agri-chemicals to farmers, will be closely watched by New Zealand's rural sector as the latest in a
series of deals that has shrunk the number of competitors in the market.

Bayer and Monsanto are two of the big seven companies selling agricultural chemicals in New Zealand.

Related: Monsanto to be acquired by Bayer, the Nazi-era IG Farben 'crimes against humanity' poison chemical
company

Of the other five, Dow Chemical is in the process of a global merger with DuPont and Swiss seed giant Syngenta is close to
being acquired by China National Chemical Corp, which already owns Adama.
Of the others, ASX-listed Nufarm had a distribution agreement with Monsanto for its Roundup glyphosphate products up
until 2013, while Bayer rival BASF reportedly held inconclusive talks with Monsanto earlier this year

Bayer chief executive Werner Baumann has indicated the companies would need to file for clearance in about 30
jurisdictions for the deal and get antitrust approval in the US, Canada, Brazil and the EU, the Financial Times reports. The
deal has stoked concern among US farmer groups that they may face price increases for agricultural products.

Federated Farmers arable farming chair Guy Wigley called it:

"A significant development for New Zealand farming. It's a very finely tuned marketplace and farmers are highly
sensitive to pricing," he said. "The costs and benefits of using all their products are keenly understood."

Wigley likened agri-chemicals to the pharmaceuticals industry, where there was plenty of competition for older products that
had come off patent while companies sought a premium to cover research and development costs for new products.

The Commerce Commission said it is unable to comment on whether the transaction would require its scrutiny. However,
John Hampton, professor of seed technology and director of the Lincoln University Seed Research Centre, said it may
require antitrust approval.

While Monsanto is the world's largest seed company, its GM crops such as Roundup-ready Canola, soybean and maize
aren't sold in New Zealand and its local sales in that market are confined to vegetable seeds produced by its Seminis and
De Ruiter units.

Related: The Complete History Of Monsanto, The Worlds Most Evil Corporation
Bayer has a smaller seeds business but is mainly in the pest and disease product side of the agri-chemical market, including
seed treatments, while Monsanto's chemicals were more in the herbicide and weed control side of the market.

All up there were about half a dozen major companies in the seed sector, "so I can't see there would be a major impact in
what's happening in seeds in New Zealand," Hampton said, adding that he speculated that Monsanto's GM technology was
a major driver for Bayer's takeover offer.

Globally, there was no new herbicide chemistry emerging and increased resistance and regulatory hurdles for some existing
ones. At the same time growing demand "for more sustainable methods of weed and pest control," he said.

Chemicals aren't the future. Now the industry is looking at interactions between microbes and plants -
biocontrols," he said.

The past five years have been marked by a number of acquisitions of small biocontrol companies by big agri-chemical
producers "being astute and looking to the future". Research was now focussed in two main areas - GM technology and the
use of bacteria and fungi to control pests and diseases and to promote plant growth, he said.

Industry group Agcarm, which represents about 85 percent of the New Zealand agri-chemicals market, has 14 members
listed as crop protection companies. It estimates the New Zealand market is worth $250 million to $300 million.

Bayer's offer for Monsanto of US$128 a share in cash is about 20 percent more than the last trading price of US$106.76.
Bayer said the deal would create "significant value" with annual synergies of about US$1.5 billion after three years "plus
additional synergies from integrated solutions in future years".
Related: Monsanto and Bayer: Why Food And Agriculture Just Took A Turn For The Worse

Race Relations In New Zealand

September 12 2016 | From: NZPCR

Last week the Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy wrote an open letter to all New
Zealanders. She wants to hear your views on racism in New Zealand. The letter is part of the Human
Rights Commissions first nationwide anti-racism campaign.

Dame Susan says the Thats Us campaign, which asks Kiwis to share their own stories about racism, intolerance
and hatred in New Zealand, is about the kind of people we want to be, and the kind of country we want our kids
growing up in.

If you would like to reply to Dame Susans letter to you, her email address is SusanD@hrc.co.nz or feedback can be
provided through the special website www.thatsus.co.nz.

The Human Rights Commission has justified the campaign on the basis that New Zealand is an extremely diverse society,
and since diverse societies elsewhere have become more racially intolerant, they expect it to occur here too. With around
400 formal complaints about racism received every year, the Commission wants public feedback: if were going to better
understand racism then we need to know what it is which in itself seems extraordinary!

In particular, they highlight casual or quiet racial intolerance the type that they say occurs in everyday life and often goes
unreported. As an example they cite the case of a woman registering students at a university, who smiles at every other
student but the brown ones.
Clearly this campaign is an exercise in redefining racism to become substantially wider than what most rational people would
assume it to be. It is a further example of the arrant nonsense emanating from the Race Relations Commissioner and the
Human Rights Commission.

This weeks NZCPR Guest Commentator, broadcaster Lindsay Perigo, who shares with us a speech he delivered at
a recent debate with Dame Susan Devoy, believes the Race Relations Commissioner and the Human Rights
Commission should be abolished:

Id abolish Dame Susan. Nothing personal! Id just abolish the office of Race Relations Commissar and with it, the
entire Human Rights Commission, to which I routinely refer as the Human Wrongs Commissariat.

This cossetted coterie of taxpayer-supported fascists of the left just want to impose their precious, prissy,
puritanical Political Correctness upon all of us. Theyre our Thought Police, prattling on about diversity when
theyre attempting to outlaw the most important diversity of all, ideological diversity and make their Political
Correctness compulsory.

Everything in their universe would be either illegal or compulsory. In my universe theyd have to find real jobs and
the legislation that set them up would be repealed.

The legislation under which the Race Relations Commissioner and the Human Rights Commission operate is the Human
Rights Act 1993, which essentially enshrines the United Nations human rights agenda into our domestic law.

As a result, the Commission is now promoting the highly controversial United Nations Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples, which Helen Clarks Labour Government considered too radical to support.

While the National Government signed up in 2010 at the behest of the Maori Party Prime Minister John Key went to some
lengths to assure the New Zealand public that it was a non-binding aspirational goal. Yet here we are with the Human
Rights Commission now proactively promoting the Declaration, including through brochures which advocate Maori self
determination and self government.

One of the Human Rights Commissions main roles is to pursue those they claim are discriminating against others.
 Dr Paul Moon, a professor of history at the Maori
Development Unit of the Auckland University of
Technology, explained how, as a result of the publication of
his book, This Horrid Practice, in 2008 which portrayed
cannibalism as a violent and widespread practice among
traditional Maori he was the subject of an anonymous
complaint to the Human Rights Commission.

But it doesnt even need a person to lay a complaint for the

Human Rights Commission to act as the Thought Police
as a former Massey University Economist, Dr Greg
Clydesdale found out.

The Commission got so worked up about a research paper

he had prepared from Statistics New Zealand data, showing
that Polynesian immigration was fuelling an underclass, that
a 69 page report was compiled on his case without a
single complaint about his paper ever being received.

Such investigations, supposedly to prevent discrimination,

can not only destroy reputations and careers, but they
create an atmosphere of fear and intimidation that seriously
undermines our fundamental right to free expression a
freedom, that is especially critical in an academic
environment.

There also remains an on-going concern that these

government officials are overly biased in favour of
minorities. This was certainly the case back in 1988, when a
scandal over a Maori activists call to kill a white, forced the
government to change the law.

According to the Hansard of the Parliamentary debates at the time, the Race Relations conciliator refused to censure
Hannah Jackson, who made her inflammatory statement at the University of Auckland marae he only censured a
newspaper editor for reporting the event.

The incident was considered to be so serious, that it caused Parliament to repeal section 9A of the Race Relations Act,
which made it illegal to publish, broadcast or make public statements likely to excite hostility or ill-will against, or bring into
contempt or ridicule, any group of persons on the ground of their colour, race, or ethnic or national origins, since it did not
apply on a marae.

As Winston Peters, then MP for Tauranga, explained in the debate;

The Race Relations Conciliator, when asked to consider an offensive statement Go out and kill a white and be
a hero did nothing.

He said that he had no role whatever to play. He then attacked the Auckland Star. A person in Auckland made a
totally outrageous statement that offended 99 percent of New Zealanders, and said that someone should go out
and kill a white and be a hero.

The Race Relations Conciliator could not be moved to say one word of opprobrium about it The view and the
myth that if one belongs to a minority one cannot be guilty of racist behaviour are being reinforced, and they are
rubbish.

As a result of that controversy, Section 9A of the Race Relations Act was eventually replaced by Sections 61 and 131 of the
Human Rights Act 1993.
Section 61 addressed the kill a white issue by prohibiting the use of words which are threatening, abusive, or insulting or
likely to excite hostility against any group of persons on the ground of race, not only in public places, but also in any place
where the person using the words knew or ought to have known that the words were reasonably likely to be published

In addition, the new law clarified the fact that the media can legally report on such matters.

Section 131 of the Act established the fact that inciting racial disharmony is a criminal offence punishable by a fine of up to
$7,000 or imprisonment of up to 3 months. As a safeguard, however, under Section 132, the consent of the Attorney General
is needed before any prosecution can be instituted.

However, in spite of there being a high threshold for prosecution, the activities of the Race Relations Commissioner continue
to have a chilling effect on free speech especially their media monitoring project, aimed at naming and shaming news
outlets critical of Maori rights.

Over the years, vested Maori interests have learnt to use human rights laws to seek advantage, by using accusations of
racism or intolerance to close down the debate, whenever anyone speaks out against their agenda.

The New Zealand Centre for Political Research has been the subject of such accusation when commenting on important
matters such as the governments plan to establish iwi control of the countrys fresh water. More recently we have been
criticised for publishing details of where local body candidates stand on the vexed question of unelected representatives
with voting rights being appointed onto Councils.

As an independent organisation we remain undeterred, and congratulate our newsletter readers, who are also standing up to
the racism being expressed by iwi and the likes of Dame Susan.
Our Local Government Election Project is a community service thanks to the help of newsletter readers, the Vote 2016
index HERE provides details of which candidates around the country oppose the appointment of unelected representatives
who cannot be held to account by their local community onto their councils.

With voting papers due to be sent out next week, we are encouraging readers to visit the website and vote for candidates
brave enough to stand up against iwi control of councils. The direct link to this resource is www.nzcpr.com/local-body-
elections-2016 so please feel free to spread the word and help assist others in making their voting decisions.

Some iwi regard the notion that only elected representatives should have the right to vote on councils as old world thinking.
They seem to believe that Treaty settlement money and resources gives them a supreme right to by-pass democracy and
have their representatives appointed to sit and vote at council decision-making tables.

They are not only pressuring councils for this, but some are threatening them as well:

If iwi are not valued by their local community and encouraged, rather than discouraged, to participate and invest in
decision-making at all levels of council they will rightfully invest their economic and political influence in other
regions.

But in our view it is tribalism that is old world thinking, not democracy. A progressive society needs to respect cultural
differences but move into the future as one society with one sovereign and common laws. That view will no doubt continue to
attract the criticism of those who profit from a separatist agenda, and those like the Race Relations Office who are part of
that industry.
Iwi are also pushing for seats on local councils through the Treaty settlement process and central government is
capitulating with legislation to that effect.

Probably the best known case is that of the Independent Maori Statutory Board, which was established during Aucklands
amalgamation in 2010. The legislation states that the nine member board was set up as an advisory body with a
maximum of 2 persons to sit as members on each of the Auckland Councils committees that deal with the management and
stewardship of natural and physical resources.

The new Auckland Council however, appointed members onto many other Council committees and gave them voting rights.

The interesting question, therefore, is whether the candidates standing for the new Auckland Council would support a motion
to return the Statutory Board to the advisory role envisioned by the Government when the legislation was drawn up. In other
words, would they be prepared to take away the Boards representation on many of the Council committees and their voting
rights?

The reality is that New Zealand society does not want to be divided by race, even though this is being aggressively
promoted by the Human Rights Commission including putting increasing pressure on every local authority in the
country to adopt Maori wards.

While this move might find favour with the iwi elite, it most certainly is not supported by the vast majority of
communities, who simply want to keep race out of local politics.

So back to Lindsay Perigos question should our Human Rights laws be axed?

Its also question that is being asked in Australia and in Britain, where there is a growing recognition that there is no need to
protect individuals from the actions of others through human rights legislation.

With New Zealand already having an established Bill of Rights to limit the power of the state and protect our freedom, surely
its now time to abandon the legislative human rights approach, which is increasingly doing the opposite expanding the
power of the state and limiting our freedom!

Local Councils, Medical Trials And GMOs: Call For Nick Smiths Resignation
September 8 2016 | From: Scoop

The scaremongering and misrepresentation of the Auckland Unitary councils long term plan
shows that Dr. Nick Smith is deliberately twisting and misrepresenting the facts, and raising fears
that important medical research will be banned. Yet he knows any such concern is false.

The AUP expressly excludes medical and veterinary applications stating Potential GMO activities of relevance
include GM food crops, trees, grasses, animals and pharma crops, but,exclude research within contained
laboratories involving GMOs, medical applications involving the manufacture and use of GM products

Related: Pesticide Special Report

In seeking to mislead the public, the Minister is following the lead of Federated Farmers of New Zealand. Federated
Farmers challenged the right of councils, who govern under the Resource Management Act (RMA), to place precautionary
GE wording in their plans, in the Environment Court.
The challenge was not upheld. They then appealed the Environment Courts decision to the High Court, which has now
dismissed the appeal.

The Minister's anti-democratic panicked response of introducing a new law that expressly prohibits councils to consider
environmental and land use protections around GMOs, shows a cynical contempt for due process and local democracy.

It is an indictment on Dr. Smith and shows that he is not working for the good of the country but is using his powers and
influence to pursue an agenda outside of his responsibilities as a Minister.

This serious breach of conduct transgresses his responsibilities as a minister. He is apparently unable to avoid his conflicts
of interest around the GE issue.

This terrible situation leads us to call for his resignation as a Minister of the Crown.

Local Councils, Medical Trials And GMOs

Medical trials involving genetically modified vaccines and other GM treatments will still be allowed
under planning changes Auckland and three other local councils are making.
Auckland councillors this week agreed to a ban on the general release of genetically modified organisms under the
city's Unitary Plan.

That has led to concerns that a medical trial involving genetically modified organisms would be stopped in its tracks.

Environment Minister Dr Nick Smith said that the Government would review the "appropriateness of councils being involved
in regulating genetically modified organisms".

A trial for liver cancer vaccine Pexa-Vec is being conducted at Auckland Hospital which involves a GMO. The new
Auckland Unitary Plan prohibits the release of any GMO and would not allow any such future medical
treatments, Dr Smith said in a press release.

The SMC put together the following Expert Q&A with Dr Kerry Grundy, Team Leader (Futures Planning), Whangarei
District Council. (Contact Dr Grundy on 09 430 4200)

Dr Grundy is convenor of the Inter-council Working party on GMO Risk Evaluation and Management
Options (comprising Auckland Council, Whangarei District Council, Far North District Council, and Northland
Regional Council).*

1: Will existing and/or future medical trials involving GMOs be banned in these regions as a result of the plan
changes?

I can confirm that the GMO provisions in all planning documents do not affect medical applications involving
GMOs including present and future applications. These are permitted."
 "The plan provisions apply only to outdoor use of GMOs, i.e. GMOs released to the environment or outdoor field
trial of GMOs. They do not apply to indoor use in contained facilities, laboratories, hospitals or to medical
applications or most veterinary applications."

2. As part of the plan provisions, do the Councils require any additional notification of, or approval for, GM-related
trials (medical or otherwise) than is currently required through the likes of the Environmental Protection Authority?

The councils plan provisions make outdoor field trials of GMOs a discretionary activity under the RMA. This
means they need a resource consent from council to conduct a field trial in addition to approval from the EPA."

"The resource consent will require strict liability from the party conducting the trial for any environmental or
economic damage that may occur as a result of the trial together with a bond to cover any costs should they arise
(HSNO does not require this)."

"This does not apply to medical trials as medical applications are specifically excluded from council provisions. In
addition, the definition of field trials in the plan provisions refers only to 'outdoor' field trials."

3. Are there any specific provisions relating to patients involved in medical trials who are being treated with GM
therapies - such as the Pexa-Vec liver cancer vaccine? For instance, relating to where the vaccines can be
administered, or where patients are housed while receiving treatment?

There are no specific provisions relating to patients involved in medical trials who are being treated with GM
therapies presently or in the future. Medical applications are not subject to the plan provisions. They are treated as
permitted activities under the RMA. They require no consent from council. Council has no role in relation to them."

4. Are there currently any outdoor trials of GMOs underway in any of the regions governed by the four Councils
that have contributed to the plan?

There are no outdoor field trials that I am aware of underway in any of the jurisdictions covered by the councils in
Auckland and Northland who have or are in the process of putting GMO provisions in their planning documents."

5. What provisions have the Councils made for the possible future introduction of new genetic technologies, such
as gene-editing techniques, and their evaluation and classification as GM according to the plan?

Councils have made no specific provisions for possible future introduction of new genetic techniques and their
classification as GM according to the plans. Councils only regulate GMOs as defined in the HSNO Act."
 "The plans definition of a GMO is the same as the HSNO definition. If an organism produced by a new technique
is included as a GMO under the HSNO Act it will be treated as such by the plans. If an organism produced by a
new technique is not defined as a GMO under HSNO it will not be caught by the plan provisions."

*The GMO plan provisions that are in the Auckland Unitary Plan and in plan changes to the WDC and FNDC GMO
plan changes are based on research and documentation produced by the Working Party.

1080: NZ Animals Killed For No Reason In $80m Yearly 1080 Drops

September 6 2016 | From: Various

Over 80 million dollars, including farmers hard earned cash, is spent every year eradicating a
disease, that by World standards, doesn't exist...

The Agency considered that acute exposures to 1080 in humans and animals may give rise to irreversible adverse,
target organ [heart and brain] effects. These effects are severe.

Related: Satanists Escape Plan Involves Killing Natives Of New Zealand

Continued presence of predators (rats, mice, cats, stoats) [on Rangitoto Island after 1080 cereal operation]..ongoing
predation..less than expected bird population recoveries (2004)
Related Links & Information on 1080:

What DOC doesnt want you to know about 1080 Poison

"The recent post about 89 dead Kiwis that DOC didnt bother to test for 1080 poisoning relates to this report of birds that
actually were tested. Thanks to the person with a conscience who let the public know what is going on!"

TVwild.co.nz

More 1080 videos + If you have your pets, farm stock, deer, trout or eels, native wildlife (including birds), poisoned on or
near your property or have any information to share with regard to aerial 1080 poison drops taking place near you, please let
us know
1080Science.co.nz

Introduction Environmental Risk Management Authoritys 1080 Documents + factual evidence against 1080.

Does The Local Government Act Amendment Bill Result In Amalgamation By Stealth?
Local Body Developments
August 29 2016 | From: KiwiWatch / NZPCR

After Amalgamation failures in Northland, Hawkes Bay and Wellington is the National government
attempting to do this via the backdoor while everyone was watching the Rio Olympics?
It seems that Hastings Mayor and Mr. UN Agenda 21 / UN Agenda 30 New Zealand Laurence Yule is planning to
force amalgamation on Hawkes Bay. The following letter was in the Dominion Post:

Submitted by a reader:

Letters to the Editor

Dominion Post
2 August 2016

Local Govt Bill

At the recent local government conference widespread concern was expressed about the potential loss of local
democracy if a revamped Local Government Commission (LGC) is authorised to amalgamate various bodies and
require the establishment of commercial agencies with little if any elected directors.

Discussion almost entirely ignored the most radical proposal now before the House: to make the LGC a Crown
agent (that is, subject to explicit direction by a minister) and to exempt from the Official Information Act any
information from or about the process leading to a decision of the LGC, for example, to amalgamate.

Perhaps the bill is just provocative; perhaps fears of making local government a creature of the central executive
are groundless. If not, this is a significant constitutional change.

Judith Aitken
Retiring Wellington Regional Councillor
Te Aro

I do not recall seeing anything in the HB Today about submissions which have, of course, closed. The bill is before
parliament on its second reading before reaching a Select Committee.

This is of great concern because, once again, our democracy is being challenged BEHIND CLOSED DOORS and the
unwanted result will be presented to us as fait accompli too late for us to do anything, again.

This is the Link sent to me from parliament: Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Bill (No 2)

Local Body Developments

"If at first you dont succeed, try, try again. Then quit. Theres no point in being a damn fool about
it!" - W.C. Field, American comedian
Not content with the failure of the Local Government Commission to merge councils in Northland, the Hawkes Bay,
and Wellington, National is now proposing to put their amalgamation agenda into effect via the back door, by using
a new local government bill to increase the power of the Commission, while removing important democratic rights.

The Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Bill (No 2) is now in front of Parliaments Local Government and Environment
Select Committee and is open for submissions until Thursday 28 July full details can be seen here.

The Bills preamble explains that it aims to lift local authority performance, as part of the Governments overall objective of
improving public services and building a more productive and competitive economy. It does this by streamlining the process
for combining and co-ordinating services, infrastructure and resources across regions and towns, through a greater use of
Council-Controlled Organisations (CCOs).

As the Local Government Minister Sam Lotu-Iiga explained in his first reading speech:

"Communities in Northland, Hawkes Bay, and Wellington have told us that they do not want full-scale
amalgamation, but this bill provides a middle ground. Communities will retain their elected councils; the councils, in
turn, will be able to work more collaboratively to manage infrastructure and services across our regions. This will
deliver more joined-up, cost-effective services and better value for our ratepayers.

So while the present legislation promotes council amalgamations as the way to gain the scale required to combine services,
the new Bill facilitates the sharing of services between councils, without the need for amalgamation unless it is agreed by
all councils.

While under the present law only individuals, groups, councils, and the Minister can propose amalgamations, the Bill
extends that power to the Local Government Commission. To balance that, the Bill includes an automatic poll of citizens
over any Commission-led re-organisation proposal, including the transfer of water, transport, or Resource Management Act
functions from one local authority to another.
However, theres a catch. The Bill removes an important democratic safeguard, namely the automatic right of residents and
ratepayers to petition councils for a binding poll on any amalgamation proposal if supported by 10 percent of electors.

As a result, under the new Bill, if a number of councils jointly agree on amalgamation, local citizens will have no
right to call for a poll. This has already led to speculation that councils might be encouraged to collude in order to
circumvent a public poll.

We strongly recommend that the ability of residents and ratepayers to petition their local authority for a poll
on any amalgamation or reorganisation proposals should either be re-instated, or the provision for an automatic poll on
Commission-led changes should be extended to cover all amalgamation and re-organisation proposals.

The point is that local ratepayers have a fundamental right to have a say in the structure of representative decision-making
in their communities, since they are the ones who fund council infrastructure and assets.

There is also a concern that a central requirement in the current law, that there must be demonstrable community support
for an amalgamation proposal to proceed, has been removed. Instead, the new Bill focuses on the likelihood of
significantcommunity opposition to any reorganisation

In effect, this change in presumption from an amalgamation needing community support to proceed, to the lesser hurdle that
it should go ahead, unless there is significant opposition, dramatically lowers the threshold.

We suggest that the old standard is the correct one new local government re-organisation proposals should have to
demonstrate that they have the support of their community in order to proceed.

When community support was used as a benchmark by the Commission in the last three amalgamation attempts,
the results were conclusive: in Northland, 93 percent of submitters opposed a single council, in Wellington, 89
percent were opposed, and in the Hawkes Bay, where a poll was held, 66 percent of voters were opposed.

In defence of the new Bill, the Local Government Minister explained:

"The projected costs of maintaining and building core infrastructure such as water, sewerage, flood protection and
roading are growing exponentially faster than the ability of local ratepayers to bear.

The bill enables the development of shared infrastructure ownership and management across regions. This is
essential for developing regions and communities.
But this is also a key reason why communities should remain closely involved in the reform process the creation of CCOs
for the delivery of water and roading services, could remove a major part of the budget of many small councils, signalling
their radical downsizing into largely regulatory agencies.

Further, since concerns remain that the Commission, on behalf of the Minister, could create CCOs, without the approval of
the council or the community, it is imperative that community involvement and support remains a priority in the Bill
especially given the dreadful problems that are still evident in Auckland, where residents and ratepayers had
amalgamation forced upon them.

Meanwhile, the Local Government Commission is wasting no time. Although their plans for Auckland-style super cities and
Maori Statutory Boards in Northland, Wellington and the Hawkes Bay were rejected, they are now informing councils that
they intend to reconsider other restructuring options to promote greater efficiencies in the regions. They plan to progress
their re-organisation proposals under the new law.

If you are concerned about the potential erosion of local democracy, and the failure of the proposed law to adequately
safeguard public involvement in major council reorganisation decision-making, we would urge you to send in a quick
submission on the Bill outlining your concerns by Thursday.

With local body elections just weeks away, local government reform is not the only thing being dumped on councils.

This weeks NZCPR Guest Commentator, Fiona Mackenzie, an Auckland-based political commentator, outlines how
councillors in the region are having to battle against a power grab by tribal interests for control of the crucial Hauraki Gulf.
The Hauraki Gulf is a massive coastal area covering 1.2 million hectares from Mangawai in the North, to Waihi in the South,
and Great Barrier Island in the East, encompassing Auckland, the Hauraki Plains and the Coromandel Peninsula. It includes
the Ports of Auckland, shipping routes, marinas, fisheries, marine farms, and other commercial and recreational facilities.

At the present time, as Fiona explains, the area is controlled by the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park Act:

"Since 2000, the Gulf has been managed by the Hauraki Gulf Forum with Auckland Council as its administering
authority. Its 21-member board includes Ministry bureaucrats, elected representatives of all the regions councils,
plus 6 self-nominated tribal representatives appointed by the Minister of Conservation.

She outlines how, at their meeting last month, iwi tried to force through a re-organisation proposal for a new 16-member
Board, constituted on the 50:50 Maori sovereignty co-governance model, whereby 8 members would represent Maori and 8
members would represent everyone else, giving tribes unassailable control of the Board and the Hauraki Gulf.

Under their scheme, the number of iwi representatives on the new Forum would be increased from 6 to 8. The number of
councillors representing the vast Auckland region would be cut from 7 to 1. Representatives of the five other councils in the
area the Hauraki District Council, the Matamata-Piako District Council, the Thames-Coromandel District Council, the
Waikato District Council, and the Waikato Regional Council would be cut from 5 to 2.

And the number of public servants representing the Minister of Maori Affairs, the Minister of Conservation, and the Minister
of Fisheries, would be increased from 3 to 5.
All in all, only 3 of the 16 representatives on the proposed new governance body would be elected to represent the public
interest and the almost 2 million people who live in the area.

Under the proposal the new iwi-controlled Board would demand statutory authority to enact legislation over the entire area.

Why, in a democracy based on equal rights and the rule of law, such a racist proposal could have progressed to the point
where it is being seriously considered, is hard to fathom although its not altogether surprising, given that the long-term
agenda of Maori tribal leaders is to gain sufficient status and power to control the countrys major resources.

According to Fiona:

"The meeting became rather acrimonious when some expressed concern at this attempt to shove the
recommendations through. Understandably, they wished to have it reviewed by their respective organisations and
obtain a mandate before voting. The inevitable claims of racism were made.

She is concerned that those in positions of power on the Auckland Council, who support the sovereignty cause, might
manipulate the process so the proposal may not be decisively defeated, as it should be:

"At the time of writing, the Forums Auckland City Councillors did not yet know if this Report would be reviewed and
voted on by their Councils governing body. Theres a chance it could be directed to a sub-committee for an easier
passage from carefully selected participants, plus the two votes from the unelected, unaccountable and totally
conflicted members of the Independent Maori Statutory Board.
It is clear that the group wanting control of the Gulf were pushing Forum members to approve their new governance model
on the spot, ahead of the local body elections, as they clearly believe they have the numbers to get their proposal through
and do not want to risk having their compliant representatives replaced by others who might oppose their plan.

If they succeed in gaining support for their 50:50 Maori sovereignty-style co-governance proposal, the next step in their
march for tribal control of the Hauraki Gulf, will be to seek the approval of the Government for a change to the Act. With the
National Partys history of caving in to iwi demands, whether they would stand up against this blatant power grab is anyones
guess.

This whole debacle shows only too clearly how important it is that our local body representatives are prepared to act on
principle and stand up for the public interest against radicals.

By offering themselves for office, candidates are pledging to work in the best interests of their community. That means
opposing anyone threatening the principle of one person one vote.

With an on-going campaign underway to pressure councillors to support the appointment of un-elected iwi representatives
with voting rights onto local authorities, it is important that potential candidates are well prepared. Standing up to iwi and
their supporters is not always easy, so we suggest the following questions should be asked:

1. If you are elected would you oppose iwi representatives being appointed onto your Council with voting rights?

2. If you are elected and a proposal to appoint iwi representatives with voting rights onto your Council wins majority
support, would you propose that the final decision should be made by local electors through a public referendum
process?

3. If your Council has already established iwi representatives with voting rights, will you move that the positions be
disestablished so they can be reconsidered by the new council?

If you send email responses from candidates to us, we will add the details to our website here as a public service in the
run up to the elections.

New Zealand needs strong local government politicians. But be warned as Fionas article indicates only too clearly, you
need to be prepared to stick to your principles and not cave in to bullying or intimidation.
Most of all you must never forget that you are there to represent the best interests of your community and those
who voted you into office.

Why Are Prices So High In New Zealand? + Homeless In New Zealand - Thousands
Living In Garages And Cars
August 27 2016 | From: MediaWhores / Aljazeera

Dear Leader Knows Best and the Stats (Satanists) dont lie.

Luciferian Zionists are incapable of speaking the truth

The media today are debating why prices are so high in New Zealand. They have decided to ask the experts. The
experts are all pretty sure there is no inflation. The Government told us so. And the experts all work for the
Government or for the banks, who run the Government.

Related: The British Banking Conspiracy Part 2 - America, Israel and The Federal Reserve (9/11)

Sounds like a story out of Soviet Russia doesnt it?

Prices in NZ have in fact risen by at least 200% since the 2008 Global financial crisis. 400+ % on my favorite cheese, and
my honey for example. 200% plus on housing, and power bills some say also. Yet somehow the Government and the
corporate media all agree that there hasnt really been any inflation at all in the past 10 years.

It should be noted that wages and salaries are almost unchanged in that same period in economics speak, this translates
to lower real wages or the amount of purchasing power of your money / pay.

If prices are 200% or more up, and your wages remain the same you might be experiencing budgeting problems.
And the bottom 5% will all be living in their cars. Which is precisely the case under this Soviet like John Key regime who
pose as capitalists.

We need to explain why those prices have been rising (money counterfeiting by the banks essentially) but first, lets consider
the other thing putting upwards pressure on our prices exports.

New Zealand is now feeding upwards of 60,00, 000 people overseas. That is how much food we produce a massive
amount. One of the biggest food producers per capita in the entire World.

We are a giant farm really, with some traffic jams in the middle. All of the very best food is exported to the likes of 5 star
hotels across Asia and Europe, and thousands of tonnes more to supermarkets and chain stores all over.

You can of course buy anything you want here but you just have to pay the same price as top corporate executives are
offering for it in Tokyo and London.

If that makes you feel a little queasy, also keep in mind that most of the corporates shipping all of our food and resources
overseas, are paying almost no tax these days. They all have advanced offshore licensing fees and trusts to launder the
profit through to.
Assholes like Graeme Hart (above) are held up for us as some kind of hero when he is in fact one of the single biggest
causes of poverty in our modern day history.

In fact - Kiwis are now not only dealing with 100-200 % lower real wages these days but are also paying around 65% net
taxes on their salaries and wages. That includes 20-30% income tax, 15% GST, ACC rates, petrol taxes, tobacco taxes,
alcohol taxes, local rates, and on and on. Then thanks to privatisation you have to pay for most Government Services
anyway.

It is in fact beyond madness it is looking more and more like some type of Corporate Fourth Reich. A corporate holocaust
being run by our Government in conjunction with their Corporate partners.

The Corporate Fourth Reich is apparently well underway in New Zealand and under a Prime Minister who claims to be
Jewish oddly enough. Zionists I hear some people refer to them as. Which looks suspiciously like the word Nazi to me.
Turns out now the experts in the media want to tax sugar as well. The poor can only afford cheap foods full of sugar these
days. So the new tax is clearly designed to make their lives even harder. Fact is, if they had any interest in keeping people
healthy, they would simply remove taxes off fruit and vegetables.

That is the reality of New Zealand these days a small handful of apparently very well connected and financed people are
doing just great, overseas trips, baches, overseas homes, etc and everyone else is being slowly killed off via a
scientifically designed and deployed corporate extermination program.

The others have nice large distilled water (h2o) treatment plants for them and their family, and everyone else is drinking
sodium fluoride and chlorine if they are lucky the unlucky rate payers are actually dying from preventable diseases in
their water supplies. This is apparently the new standard.

Interesting to note that no one has been held responsible for the Havelock North Water Crisis these leaders are
now poisoning everyone and still get to keep their jobs.

Hapless sellout idiot and Mr. Agenda 21 New Zealand, Lawrence Yule expects to be re-elected and he cannot even tell 5,000 + people why they are
sick for weeks from a poisoned water supply
One wonders how bad it is going to get?

One thing is for sure the amount of crap that Kiwis are prepared to put up with has increased exponentially in just 25
years. Probably at the same rate as the size of their TV screens.

And why do we have inflation on our remaining food ? Mostly due to the money printing / counterfeiting operations of the
foreign banks that money you sign for and they lend you, at interest?

Yeah, it came out of thin air... a very sophisticated magic trick, that only certain qualified magicians are apparently allowed
to do.

Homeless In New Zealand - Thousands Living In Garages And Cars

Once a pioneer of the social welfare state, New Zealand now has over 40,000 people who are
homeless, forced to live in their cars and in garages as a result of rapid house price and rent rises
and a shortage of social housing.

Al Jazeera correspondent Tarek Bazley visits South Auckland and meets two families one with six children living
in a derelict garage, the other who lived with three teenagers for months in their car and charts the countrys fall
from and egalitarian society to one with deep divisions of wealth.

Megalithic New Zealand: Pyramids, Rabbits, And Megaliths Of Upper World And
Underworld
August 11 2016 | From: Priscilla Rawiri-Steele

Pyramids and megalithic monuments are everywhere in New Zealand, so often eroded or utterly
huge they may, and have been explained away as natural rock formations, so people tend to fail to
see them.

Little Pyramid Okia, Victory Beach, Otago Peninsula New Zealand

It is only in old photos like the one below of the Gorge du Fier in France, it is possible to see the men are looking
down upon an enormous face of a pagan deity which has subsequently been carefully smoothed, as has
protractedly occurred in New Zealand.
Little pyramid on Otago peninsular, New Zealand

Related: Pyramids and Grottos at Okia, Victory Beach Otago, in the South Island

It is only in old photos like this one of the Gorge du Fier in France, it is possible to see the men are looking down upon an
enormous face of a pagan deity which has subsequently been carefully smoothed, as has protractedly occurred in New
Zealand.
Gorge du Fier at d'Annecy France the yellow box contains the face that the men are looking down upon; sourced from an old post card in my
personal collection

Little pyramid at Okia, Victory Beach Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand has long since been vandalized. Next to it is
a half-buried sphinx; its face has been cut away. Why intentionally hide an ancient civilization by disguise / disfigurement /
damnatio memoriae and then present the wreck of it to future generations as mysterious: Cui Bono?

Low tide reveals an ancient wall at Achilles Point Ladies Bay / St. Heliers, Auckland, NZ. This is clearly a construction - not a natural formation
Wall at Machu Picchu, Peru. The construction technique is an example of the dimensional knockover technique as decribed by David Wilcock in his
research / writings
Elephant Megalith Heimaey Island south Iceland
Cape Brett, New Zealand carving of an African Elephant

Cape Brett, where the tourist ships pass through was long ago carved into the shape of a massive African Elephant. Like
these massive carvings, black basalt columns with hexagonal / pentagonal tops were carefully explained away as natural
rock carvings as early as 1772, by Sir Joseph Banks.

Having noticed them in New Zealand upon the Otago Peninsular, Banks hurried to Staffa Island to compare the black basalt
columns there with the The Giants Causeway in Ireland, and to obscure their true nature and meaning by explaining them
away as miraculous and natural rock formations (The Extreme Earth, Caves by Jeanne K. Hanson, and Geoffrey H. Nash p.
70 Staffa Island).
Canto XLi Ludovico Ariostos Orlando Furioso as translated by (Hieronymus)Jiminez de Urrea

Why would Sir Joseph Banks do such a thing? Honey bees make hexagonal cells in their hives, and the honey bee is the
emblem of Minoans. Ubiquitous hexagon causeways, and pillar designs are an important key to understanding that, like a
honey thief pillaging the hive for honey, the gold and riches stored in the castles / temples / pyramids of Minoans had been
violently and protractedly extracted.
Ancient wall at Owairaka, New Zealand

At Don Heads Coles beach Devonport Tasmania are the same worn hexagonal / pentagonal rocks, and by 1802-4 the
Tasmanian Aboriginal had been eradicated from the face of the Earth.

Was Banks covering up archaeological monumental clues? Was Banks complimenting with his dismissal of man-made
edifices and megaliths, the damnatio memoriae practiced by academics over the last four centuries so that today,
Hyperborea mentioned in my modern edition of Orlando Furioso, is referred to by just one short line stating that Hyperborea
is a land that lies in the extreme north?
Lion Rock, Piha, West coast, Auckland,m New Zealand.

It is hard to escape the question: what would drive academics to so deface an original work so they might change the
location of a whole country / domain spanning at least three continents, from south to north?

Photo below, imputed to portray Machu Picchu as it was found by the son of a Protestant missionary, Hiram Bingham. Under
sphinx (with ancient ghostly outline of face cut away and lying crumped on left paw?

The same sawing marks are on this sphinx head, as on the cut away head at one of the two sphinx at Piha pictured above,
on Aucklands west coast) 1912. Overleaf are two photos of Paritutu, or what is called today Sugar Loaf at New Plymouth.
Despite all the foliage and erosion, the sphinx face and flaring Egyptian crown is evident to the naked eye. In the water, paws
may yet be discerned.
Machu Picchu, 1912

Why pyramids and Megaliths in New Zealand? Due to the towering stature of remains found, Flinders Petrie hypothesized
that the first dynasty of Egypt came from Pa Swenet (Pwenet, Punt).

After the Reformation, those once clandestinely Humanist,

but subsequent to and during the Reformation, openly
Protestant countries, undoubtedly took what became known
as the Flemish and or German Giant Rabbit, off the abodes
they destroyed, at what is today called Auckland. I believe
our rabbit of Pa Swenet (Pwenet or Punt) went on to carry
his time piece, and run in haste before Alice in Dis.
Paritutu New Plymouth, New Zealand

Fairly central to The Triumph of Death, did Bruegel the Elder depict next to our beloved honey bee depicted as flying fecal
matter, our beautifully preserved and treasured vases being lowered from our castles?

Today these ancient masterpieces are held in great Museums of the world such as The Getty and are given pertinent or
profound attributions such as The Underworld Painter and too, bogus attributions like The Baltimore Painter.

Paritutu New Plymouth, New Zealand

In the late 18th century, the light bulb was also stolen from the Pa at what is today called Auckland, a place which The Royal
(Naval) Society explorative scientists vouched was the receptacle of all the treasures and secrets of The Herculaneum (as
mentioned in the Third Edition of my second book citing The Enlightenment and Why it Still Matters by Anthony Pagden).

Bruegel The Elder The Triumph of Death

Terrain for comparison with Bruegels The Triumph of Death from a View of Auckland from Mount Eden circa 1910 as sourced from a Post card
marked Tourist Series B026 Printed in Great Britain. The zigzag of dark greenery follows the old canal

This almost two and a half thousand year old Red Figure Vase is attributed to The Underworld Painter, so does it form part of loot taken from Te
Totara (said by the Ancient Greeks Tartaros The Underworld)?

Francesco del Cossa (1430 1477) The Triumph of Venus painting held in Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara

The rubbing out of archaeological sites was carried out and recorded over centuries. At the beginning of the 20th Century,
wairaka Pa (later called Mount Albert) was forcibly taken down by half its mass. In the photo below, the quarry pictured is
noticeably on the same proportions as Bruegels Tower of Babel.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder 1525 1569 Painting called The Tower of Babel
The beautiful Auaunga (Au as it is today, is short for Latin Aurum or gold) stream canal has been covered. (.Quarrying
stopped suddenly in 1928. The height of the mountain was reduced from 148 metres to 135 metres and most of the Maori
terraces were destroyed. Today, less than half the original land mass remains.

Men posing on a quarry at Auckland ca. 1900. Photograph originally sourced from Auckland War Memorial Museum

The ballast pit was levelled off to make the archery field and in 1961, the inside surfaces of the cone were smoothed off
further removing archeological traces. As sourced from Destruction of the Mountain at wairaka Mount Albert Heritage
Walks, Neighbourhood Walks at Aucklandcouncil.gov.nz).
A rock climber at the base of the citadel Mount Eden 1967

Did the Hyperboreans survive the last Ice Age, and are those ghostly straight lines really the outline of pyramids hiding there
under snow and ice in Antarctica?

Related: Ruins Of Ancient City Found In Antarctica?

Are there undiscovered pyramids in New Zealand filled with untold treasure? If these matters which stir every adventurers
heart would be answered by the truth coming out about the fate of the Hyperboreans, it is also pertinent to ask; what is the
long term social and political and moral legacy of covering up the truth about what happened to the Minoans of Hyperborea?

Philomel passing before Pyramid Coromandel 1946

Here, the twins with the Minoan flower central to the Phaistos disc are beautifully painted in Augustus Earles observation
about the fate of the founders of the First Dynasty of Egypt. Are future generations of academics really going to allow the raft
of lies and manipulation of truth to continue, and ultimately, at what cost to Humanity?

Megalithomania 2008: Hamish Miller - The Stone People of New Zealand

Published on Jun 26, 2012 The 2016 Megalithomania Conference is on 7th-8th May in Glastonbury, UK, with a top line-up
of ancient mysteries authors and researchers including Julian Richards, Brien Foerster, Hugh Newman and more. Details
here: megalithomania.co.uk.

Filmed at the Megalithomania Conference, Glastonbury, 17th - 18th May 2008. (Also available on a high-quality DVD from
megalithomania.co.uk. An account of the extraordinary manifestations of the energy of the earth at sacred places in New
Zealand, looking at many ancient pre-Maori megalithic sites.

Hamish co-authored 'In Search of the Southern Serpent' with Barry Brailsford about the pre-historic sites and earth energies
of New Zealand and updates us on his research at Megalithomania. He discussed the cathartic communication through the
Stone People which led to the creation of his new project, the Parallel Community 9includes 6 minute preview of the new
DVD).
Related: Disinterest In Pre-Maori History Stuns

Hamish Miller is a dowser, metal sculptor and author. He read engineering at Edinburgh and through his books, talks and
workshops his work on earth energies has earned him an international reputation. Book titles include The Sun and the
Serpent, It's Not Too Late,

The Dance of the Dragon, The Definitive Wee Book on Dowsing, and In Search of the Southern Serpent (published in May
2006).

A new DVD, Hamish on The Parallel Community was released in November 2007 and is now available. Hamish has lectured
widely in Britain, America, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand and has appeared in television programmes in Britain,
Sweden, Holland, America, Australia and South Africa.

Currently working with the rapidly expanding Parallel Community (inspired by his cathartic 'meeting' with the ancestors in
New Zealand), Hamish lives with his wife Ba, physiotherapist, dowser and researcher, on twelve acres of rough bracken,
gorse and granite where they spend their spare time planting trees and trying to stop rabbits from eating them.

Related: Russian Scientists Build And Study Pyramids: What They Found Could Change The World

In New Zealand, Lands and Rivers Can Be People (Legally Speaking)

August 10 2016 | From: TheNewYorkTimes

Can a stretch of land be a person in the eyes of the law? Can a body of water?
In New Zealand, they can. A former national park has been granted personhood, and a river system is expected to
receive the same soon.

The unusual designations, something like the legal status that corporations possess, came out of agreements between New
Zealands government and Maori groups. The two sides have argued for years over guardianship of the countrys natural
features.

Chris Finlayson, New Zealands attorney general, said the issue was resolved by taking the Maori mind-set into account. In
their worldview, I am the river and the river is me, he said. Their geographic region is part and parcel of who they are.

From 1954 to 2014, Te Urewera was an 821-square-mile national park on the North Island, but when the Te Urewera
Act took effect, the government gave up formal ownership, and the land became a legal entity with all the rights, powers,
duties and liabilities of a legal person, as the statute puts it.

"The settlement is a profound alternative to the human presumption of sovereignty over the natural world, said
Pita Sharples, who was the minister of Maori affairs when the law was passed.

It was also undoubtedly legally revolutionary in New Zealand and on a world scale, Jacinta Ruru of the University of
Otago wrote in the Maori Law Review.

Personhood means, among other things, that lawsuits to protect the land can be brought on behalf of the land itself, with no
need to show harm to a particular human.

Next will be the Whanganui River, New Zealands third longest. The local Maori tribe views it as:

"An indivisible and living whole, comprising the river and all tributaries from the mountains to the sea - and thats
what we are giving effect to through this settlement,
Mr. Finlayson said. It is expected to clear Parliament and become law this year.

Visitors can still enjoy Te Urewera the way they could when it was a park. We want to welcome people; public access is
completely preserved, Mr. Finlayson said. But permits for activities like hunting are now issued by a board that includes
government and Maori representatives. A similar board will be set up for the river.

Could this legal approach spread beyond New Zealand? Mr. Finlayson said he had talked the idea over with Canadas new
attorney general, Jody Wilson-Raybould.

The Truth Is Possibly Out There

August 3 2016 | From: NewZealandHerald

The following article appeared in the 'New Zealand Herald on Sunday', last Sunday 31 August. In
the lead up to David Icke's visit to New Zealand the writer approached a number of New Zealand
based people within the 'conspiracy' or 'truthseeker' community. The following is the online
version of that article whch was published in print as an illustrated two page spread.
Does an ancient race of reptilian psychos run the world? Paul Little goes inside the world of conspiracy theorists.
Confused? Feel like everything's falling part? Wondering why all this weird stuff keeps happening?

David Icke, the eminent conspiracy theorist - or truth seeker, as many who share his interests prefer to be called - is ready
to help you make sense of it all, as part of his Worldwide Wakeup Tour, which plays at the Logan Campbell Centre in
Auckland next Saturday.

He'll explain that despite the way things appear, our planet is run, as the New Statesman neatly summarised it, by the
Archons.

An ancient race of reptilian psychopaths who have ... blinded humans to the real world".

They are "creating a dystopian society" and an "inverted reality is being broadcast from Saturn via the Moon, which
is hollow".
Which possibly raises more questions than it answers.

A conspiracy theory always requires, it should hardly need saying, some organisation. If, for instance, you believe in
chemtrails, that's not a conspiracy theory. If you believe they are lines of chemicals laid in the sky for enigmatically evil
reasons and there is an organised cover-up of the existence of chemtrails, that is a conspiracy theory.

Their impact can range from the relatively harmless - wondering if you'll bump into not-really-dead Elvis at the Ohope dairy -
to downright dangerous [clearly has not read up on that] , such as not vaccinating children because you believe it causes
autism.

The problem with conspiracy theories is so few have proved to be conspiracy facts. But enough have to make the concept
plausible. Nicky Hager wrote a bestselling book about some.
There was a Watergate cover-up. US authorities did leave 399 African-Americans with syphilis untreated without their
knowledge to see what would happen.

But why should we pay good money to listen to Icke and his foreign conspiracy theories when we have perfectly good ones
of our own (see below). We're not short of local truth seekers.

Wakeupkiwi.com, contains details of numerous conspiracies, local and imported. Richard became interested in the area as
a boy with an imagination fired by reading about dinosaurs and aliens. He started his now labyrinthine site as a repository
for documentaries and links he thought like-minded thinkers might be interested in.

But because of the sheer volume of things that are transpiring it's turned into something it was never meant to
be," he says. "I get lost in it myself sometimes."

But he's no conspiracy theorist. That term, he says, was coined by the CIA to describe people who believed there was more
to the Kennedy assassination than met the eye and "to make people sound like they were kooks before they opened their
mouths".
Associate Professor Marc Wilson of Victoria University's School of Psychology notes that truth-seeking sounds active.
Conspiracy theorist "could describe sitting in your mother's basement reading through dodgy websites for something
nebulous like a conspiracy".

Wilson surveyed 6000 New Zealanders in 2008 and found people mentally put "conspiracy theorist" alongside "mental -
patient". "This is due in no small part to the centrality of paranoia as part of the stereotype of the conspiracy theorist," says
Wilson.

There's no such thing as a typical truth seeker, says Wakeupkiwi:

The only common denominator is that they are people who go, 'Why should we just believe everything we are
told?'."

But, adds Wilson, people are also more likely to endorse conspiracy theories if they feel anomie, hostility, paranoia, have
less formal education, lower income, poorer health, distrust of authority and less happiness.
Radio host Vinny Eastwood is happy to be called a conspiracy theorist.

Everything is the opposite of what you think it is to a large degree," says Eastwood. "If you think it's a conspiracy
theory it's a fact. If you think it's a fact it's made-up nonsense."

Since 2010, Eastwood, who sounds delighted to have been born in conspiracy-significant 1984, has been the Auckland-
based host of an eponymous radio show that live-streams here and in the US on American Freedom Radio for two hours
twice a week.

Topics in the archive include: "Elites in Fear of White Dragon Society & Gold Standard" and "Psychopaths Infest Every
Major Institution! Can We Get Them Out?"
He got into the area in 2004, when introduced to "the comedy of Bill Hicks. And the usage of cannabis. And to conspiracy
theories - the first thing I watched was Fahrenheit 9/11", Michael Moore's Bush presidency documentary.

But it was a 300-hour community service sentence for a minor cannabis charge that destroyed his faith in government and
authorities and set him on a new course. Eastwood doesn't think issues here are very different from those elsewhere, which
is why his show goes down well in the US, where similar challenges are being faced.

"For example, right now there's a big fluoride thing going on where local district councils will have the ability to
decide whether we have fluoride put in our water taken out of their hands and put in the hands of the DHBs, which
are more or less in the pocket of the Ministry of Health, which are more or less in the pocket of the big
pharmaceutical industry, which is more or less in the pocket of the phosphate fertiliser industry which makes the
fluoride."

A scarily small number of younger people think the Rainbow Warrior was bombed by agents of a foreign power.

Wakeupkiwi however, believes we are special because our size makes us an ideal testing ground, for example, with
Eftpos. "That's why we had it 20 years before it was rolled out in the States."

Jonathan Eisen, editor of Uncensored, which proclaims itself "the best-selling English-language 'alternative' news magazine
in the Southern Hemisphere", says New Zealand is like most other countries because we are built the same.
 "I discovered a few years ago that New Zealand was a corporation much the same as the US is," says Eisen.

"If you go on the Securities and Exchange Commission website you can find the corporation is owned by another
entity - Her Majesty the Queen in right of New Zealand."

The mainstream media, says Eisen, do their bit by self-censoring. When he worked with a flagship TV current affairs series
and presented it with research showing the Aids virus was man-made, the journalist he was working with told him: "We can't
touch that."

Eisen is 73 and has been seeking the truth from an early age.

"When I was a boy my father was the first one to connect smoking and heart disease and was censored essentially
by the Journal of the American Medical Association. And he found out after he published in the Canadian Medical
Journal that the AMA journal was financed in large part by the American Tobacco Institute."

Wilson thinks we have a fairly boring conspiracy landscape. Forty per cent have endorsed the All Black poisoning [at the
1995 World Cup], 45 per cent say New Zealand is manipulated by Big Business, and a scarily small number - about 60 per
cent - of younger people think the Rainbow Warrior was bombed by agents of a foreign power.
He found rightwingers think there is a political conspiracy to advantage Maori and left wingers think there is one to
disadvantage them. As for Icke, the likes of Montgomerie and Eisen are circumspect when it comes to endorsing his claims
the Queen is a reptilian shape-shifter, among other things.

But, says Eisen

Rather than disparage him I celebrate that he can open up new avenues for discussion that are sometimes way
outside the dominant paradigm and our comfort zone, my own included, but that doesn't mean I don't take him
seriously.

So much of his work, especially with regard to the power of the so-called elites, has borne fruit."

Writing in The Guardian, New York-based psychologist and science writer Rob Bretherton says Icke's view of things:

As wild as it sounds, is kind of a hopeful message in that it is saying: 'Yes, there is a lot of stuff wrong with the
world but we can put our finger on who's responsible and what's responsible for it and then we can do something
about it'."
Frank (not his real name), a 33-year-old IT worker, whose conspiracy consciousness was raised by the documentary 9/11:
In Plane Sight, worries that's not good enough:

There's a subset of people within the truth-seeking community that will grab hold of anything with both hands,"
says Frank.

"They play into the hands of the elite. When those wacky theories get momentum it makes it easy to discredit the
rest."

Nevertheless, says Montgomerie;

The cat's out of the bag. A lot of people have put their lives on the line to expose the bigger picture. There is a big
push for disclosure of everything. It's going to be messy for a while, but it's inevitable."

As well as the idea conspiracy theories offer hope things will be remedied, they also provide comfort by absolving us from
feeling we should be in control. How can we be if we don't know what forces are secretly controlling that world?
But for some it's all too hard. Frank has stopped thinking about it so much.

If you follow the money far enough you'll come to the people pulling the strings. And if you think about that too
much and the decisions those people make and the world they've created. I got to a point where I was starting to
get depressed thinking about this."

"Perhaps ignorance is bliss."

Made in New Zealand

An area of Northland's Waipoua forest has been sealed off by DoC because it contains megalithic structures that prove the
existence of a pre-Maori civilisation, according to US-born archeo-astronomist Martin Doutre, who made the claims in his
book Ancient Celtic New Zealand.

Prime Minister Norman Kirk was assassinated by the Trilateralist Commission - a shadow world Government. Part of a
much bigger global conspiracy you can read about in The Opal File on wakeupkiwi.com.

The Rothschild cartel, a global banking organisation, attacked Christchurch with earthquake weaponry causing the
Canterbury catastrophes, according to extensive exposition at thecontrail.com
 Mind control through TV broadcasts was trialled through a transmitter in Hawkes Bay, according to Wakeupkiwi.

Rapper Tupac Shakur was not killed in 1996 but escaped to New Zealand where he lives undercover. This was a hoax a
hacker group managed to get on to the website of US broadcaster PBS.

John Key wanted a new flag without the Union Jack because that would have concentrated more power in his hands by
diminishing the authority of the Queen. See Due Authority: A Very Silent Coup at postmanproductions.org.

Welfare Cull 'Pushing Vulnerable Off The Books'

July 30 2016 | From: NewZealandHerald

A welfare advocacy group is warning that thousands of Kiwis will suffer under newly implemented
changes to the beneficiary system.
Auckland Action Against Poverty said the latest round of reforms, which require all sickness beneficiaries, sole
parents and widows with no children under 14 to look for fulltime employment like other job seekers, would have a
brutal impact on the wellbeing of hundreds of thousands of children and adults who are dependent on the state for
survival.

Related: PM's homeless remarks untrue - Sallies

The reforms, which came into force on July 15, represent the biggest upheaval in the welfare state since the Social Security
Act was passed by the first Labour Government in 1938.

Other new obligations include drug-testing for jobseekers in relevant industries.

Auckland Action Against Poverty spokeswoman Sarah Thompson said the changes were aimed at decreasing the number
of beneficiaries in New Zealand, rather than job creation.

All New Zealanders who end up on welfare will have more hoops to jump through or face punitive measures as
the Government attempts to push them into low-paid insecure work - no matter what the downstream cost.

This is not about getting people into decent work [and] it's not about job creation. It's about cutting costs by
pushing vulnerable people off the books,'' she said.

The group will hold information stalls outside three Work and Income offices in Auckland today.

Ms Thompson said there had been an increase in the number of beneficiaries who had been "sanctioned'' for slip-ups in the
last two months.

Some had also had their benefits reduced due to Work and Income errors.
What are the changes?

The reforms represent the biggest upheaval in the welfare state since the Social Security Act was passed by the first Labour
Government in 1938.

All sickness beneficiaries, and sole parents and widows with no children under 14, are now subject to the same requirement
to look for fulltime work as other jobless people, although sickness may be accepted as a valid reason to postpone work
temporarily.

Other new obligations include drug-testing for jobseekers in relevant industries, which is expected to trigger benefit cuts for
up to 5800 people, and a requirement for beneficiaries to clear outstanding arrest warrants.

About 8000 beneficiaries have arrest warrants outstanding for issues such as unpaid fines. Unless they clear them within 38
days, their benefits will be halved if they have children, or stopped completely if they don't, in what is likely to be the biggest
single purge of the benefit rolls since the system was created.

Papakura case study

The co-ordinator of the Pikorua Community House in a low-income part of Papakura, Michelle Neho, said many people with
outstanding warrants would go back to drug-dealing rather than pay their fines.

A Herald investigation into how the changes will affect people's lives in Papakura, as a case study of a high-welfare area,
has found widespread fear of the reforms even among those who are supposed to be exempted from the work-search
requirements.

A lot of people are scared about the warrants to arrest," Ms Neho said. "There's a lot of people that have
thousands of dollars of fines outstanding." Some would rather come off the benefit than pay all their fines.

The huge reorientation of welfare shifts the focus from the short-term unemployed, which largely left other beneficiaries
alone, to a new "investment approach" aimed at finding work for those who are likely to stay on benefits the longest and cost
taxpayers the most - mainly the sick, disabled and sole parents.
Work and Income chief Debbie Power said 85,000 people - mainly the sick, long-term unemployed, and sole parents and
widows with no children under 14 - would move today into intensive "work-focused case management" with 760 personal
case managers to help them find jobs and overcome barriers such as transport and childcare costs, addictions, debts and
workplace attitudes to mental illness and other conditions.

A further 1000 sole parents and 1000 people with mental health problems will be handed over to contractors who will be
paid from $2250 to $16,500 for each person they place in employment for at least a year.

From earlier in the month: Sallies' disagreement over homeless action

After the Prime Minister told reporters that people living in cars were refusing help, a rift has opened up between
the government and the Salvation Army.

Peace Foundation Project To Get Peer Mediation In Every School In NZ

July 26 2016 | From: NewZealandPeaceFoundation

The Peace Foundation is the operating name of the Foundation for Peace Studies Aotearoa / New
Zealand Inc. - Te Tuapapa Rongomau o Aotearoa.The Peace Foundation is a not for profit
organisation working to build peaceful relationships among people of all ages and cultures, from
personal to global through education, research and action.
The director of Platoon, Wallstreet and JFK was at Comic-Con 2016 in San Diego to discuss his new
movie Snowden. Considering the topic of the movie, the panel were discussing the NSA, online privacy and
government surveillance.

Are you able to make a pledge to our initiative?

And could you let your network know about this too? Every small bit helps, and adding your name to that of Louisa Wall MP,
Mayor Celia Wade Brown and Jeanette Fitzsimons helps to encourage others to follow your lead.

The work we do is the kind of educational training that a progressive Government should finance given it contributes to
peaceful communities, whanau and schools, something that reaches into the very soul of Aotearoa New Zealand, does it
not?

What else can we do to realise our target and help reduce crime, violence and aggression around our country?

With 24 days to go we have raised just over $24,000 with pledges made just recently. We won't get a cent of it if we don't
raise $150,000 by14 August.

Our desirable goal is to raise $300,000 so that we can get peer mediation into a further 160 schools around the country and
develop a project to get it to every single school, realising the peaceful Aotearoa NZ that drives you and me and so many
others.
Latest update - With 23 days to go, 50 generous donors have pledged $24,399.50 And we have just received some
FANTASTIC news!!! If we can raise further pledges of $125,603.50, a private donor has offered to TOP THIS UP WITH A
PLEDGE OF $150,030 to reach our big goal of $300,033!

Which means we can roll out our peer mediation trainings to a further 160 schools AND develop a project with partners to
reach every single school in New Zealand.

Please continue to share this initiative to your network, and ask your friends, your neighbours, the fellow passenger in the
bus, or next to you in an Auckland traffic jam (or wherever you are in New Zealand or the world) to make a pledge for
peace!

Who Owns New Zealand's Media?

July 16 2016 | From: JMAD New Zealand Media Ownership Report / Throng / MadisonLevy / Various

The JMAD 2015 New Zealand Media Ownership Report observes that New Zealand media
companies are now owned by a small number of private funds and investment banks. In the case
of MediaWorks, financial ownership has intensified its profit imperatives, and led to the demolition
of its news and currents affairs programmes.
In this context, it is encouraging that independent news organisations such as the National Business Review
(NBR), BusinessDesk and Scoop, have continued to operate in the market.

Related: Fraudcast News: You Will Believe What the Media Tells You To

In 2015, New Zealand media companies were implementing digital first strategies, and integrating newsrooms across the
print and online platforms. Unfortunately, this didnt put journalists first, and newsroom layoffs continued.

The revenue structures of media companies continued to encounter difficulties, and new forms of partnership and
collaboration emerged.

For example, Fairfax partnered with Sky TV, The Huffington Post and The New York Times; and APN with News Corp and
The Washington Post in content delivery.
Additionally, NZME, TVNZ, MediaWorks and Fairfax joined forces in advertising against companies such as Facebook and
Google.

In 2015, Rupert Murdoch returned to the New Zealand media market by acquiring a 15 per cent stake in APN, publisher of
The New Zealand Herald. In contrast, mining billionaire Gina Rinehart sold all of her Fairfax shares. Consequently, the
investment bank Morgan Stanley became the companys largest shareholder.

Yet again MediaWorks became owned by one financial institution. In 2013 it went into receivership under its private equity
owner Ironbridge Capital. In 2015, American hedge fund Oaktree Capital emerged as the biggest MediaWorks owner.

Key events concerning New Zealand media ownership

Billionaire Gina Rinehart exits Fairfax Media

Rupert Murdoch becomes the second largest owner in APN

MediaWorks becomes owned by Oaktree Capital

Scoop crowdfunds to become a not-for-profit outlet

Three funds hold 20 per cent of Sky TVs shares

Read the New Zealand Media Ownership 2015 report

New Zealand Media Ownership and Market Structure

From 2010 to 2015, the market structure of New Zealand media has not changed significantly. However, television
broadcasting has become increasingly competitive with the arrival of on-demand and video streaming services.

During the past five years, the newspaper publishing, radioand televisionmarkets have been dominatedby the same major
players: APN/NZME, Fairfax Media, MediaWorks, Sky TV, TVNZ, Radio New Zealand (RNZ), and Maori TV.
Additionally, independent news organisations such as Scoop, Allied Press, the National Business Review and
BusinessDesk, maintained operations in an increasingly competitive media environment.

New Zealand Media and Entertainment (NZME) is owned by APN News and Media, an Australian media corporation
headquartered in Sydney. APN is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders, which operates both in Australia and
New Zealand.

Similarly, Fairfax Media is headquartered in Sydney, and is publicly listed and owned by its shareholders. Sky TV (NZ)
operates in New Zealand, and is also a public company owned by shareholders. Bauer Media, a privately owned, global
media conglomerate, is headquartered in Germany.

It entered the New Zealand publishing market in 2013 by purchasing APNs magazine staples such as The Listener, New
Zealand Womans Weekly, Simply You and Simply You Living.
MediaWorks is privately owned, ow by American hedge fund Oaktree Capital. New Zealand has three Crown owned
companies: Television New Zealand (TVNZ), Radio New Zealand (RNZ) and Maori Television. TVNZ is owned by the state,
and it is commercially funded with no public service obligation.

Approximately 95 percent of its operations are funded by advertising, and its primary mandate is to pay dividends to the
New Zealand government. RNZ is the only public service broadcaster in New Zealand. Its aim is:

To provide reliable, independent and freely accessible news and information, and to give expression to New
Zealands national identity and diversity

- Treasury, 2014

Treasury states that RNZ is an independent Crown entity with public funding, and has a mandate to operate in the broad
public interest in accordance with the RNZ Charter.

Maori Television, also funded by the government, is specifically required to revitalise the Maori language. According to Maori
TV, its general objective is to be:

An independent Maori television service that is relevant, effective and widely accessible

- Maori TV, 2014

Company Ownership Focus Most Important NZ Assets

The Radio Network, The New Zealand Herald, nzherald.co.nz,

APN/NZME Shareholders Commercial
GrabOne
 Fairfax Shareholders Commercial The Dominion Post, The Press, stuff.co.nz

TV3, FOUR, EdgeTV, TV3plus1, TV4plus1, 3NOW On Demand,

MediaWorks Private Commercial
3news.co.nz, The Edge, More FM, RadioLIVE, The Breeze...

SkyTV Shareholders Commercial SkyTV, MySky, Prime, Igloo, Neon

TV ONE, TV2, TV One plus 1, TV2+1, TVNZ Ondemand,

TVNZ Crown Commercial
onenews.co.nz

Radio New Public Radio New Zealand National, Radio New Zealand Concert,
Crown
Zealand Service thewireless.co.nz

Public
Maori TV Crown Maori Television Channel, Te Reo Channel
Service

Metro, The Listener, North & South, The New Zealand Women's
Bauer NZ Private Commercial
Weekly

NBR Private Commercial The National Business Review, nbr.co.nz

Scoop Private Independent scoop.co.nz

BusinessDesk Private Independent BusinessDesk

Coliseum Sports
Private Commercial Coliseum Sports Media
Media

New Zealand Media: Concentration of Ownership

The week commencing 9th May 2016 is likely to be remembered by journalists in New Zealand for a very long time. In
another twist in the complex, uncertain and volatile media landscape the two Australian media titans, Fairfax Media and
APN announced they were engaged in discussions with a view to merging their New Zealand media assets.

These assets are Fairfax NZ and NZME, a merger of which would result in New Zealand being left with one newspaper
group holding an effective monopoly over the newspapers in the large cities, with the Otago Daily Times as the lone
independent newspaper.

Loss of advertisng revenue as a result of both digital convergence and multi-platform media configurations is adversely
impacting the traditional mass media operating model across the developed world.

However, these commercial realities and the frequent media ownership concentration that results have very
serious potential implications for the quality of journalism.

Media ownership in New Zealand has been gradually concentrating over the past years, first moving to corporate ownership
and then more latterly to financial ownership.

Nonetheless, given the relatively light media regulation by government, if this move to merger is successful the public will
inevitably have less choice and the role of the fourth estate will be at risk of being weakened, at the very time when the
worlds of politics and business appear to becoming less and less tranparent.

Related: Media Merger Will Change the News

Over the Last Few Weeks [November 2015] Throng has Presented Adhoc Analysis of
Ratings on the Free-to-Air Channels.
Related: Corporate Media Really Is Dying: Check Out these New Statistics

This has shown a staggering 12 point decline in viewing audiences across the combined TV2 and TV3 channels.

So where has that audience gone?

Has it migrated to other Freeview channels such as Maori Television, ChoiceTV and the timeshifted
channels (TVOne+1,TV2+1 and TV3+1)?
 Should advertisers be devoting more analysis to the audience and reach of these other channels?

Or has the audience shifted to the, as Throng would have you believe, anachronistic Sky?

This is highly important not just to stimulate discussion in television media in New Zealand but also highly
important to the advertising community that essentially funds these channels. A one point movement in audience
share in the $614million spent on television advertising in 2014 means $6.14m impact on profitability and the ability
to acquire content in subsequent years.

Viewers have to go somewhere

Audience share, by its very nature, sums to 100%. So a double digit shift in audience share has to go somewhere.
At this time the data for other channels (and the plus ones) havent been presented and this author doesnt have
access to the audience data that the administrators enjoy.

However it would be ironic to think that the audience has migrated to watching more hours of television on the
platform that the administrators go to great lengths to harangue and ridicule.

Although the demographic is incorrect publically available data shows that over the 2010-2014 Sky TV and Prime
have enjoyed a 4% lift in audience share. Something that must increase the bitterness of Throng. It still begs the
question where has 8 percentage points or $50 million worth of advertising share gone?

Read more at: Throng

Related: Hidden Truths About The Mainstream News Media

Print Newspapers and Online News Outlets

In 2015, NZME and Fairfax maintained their duopoly in New Zealands print newspaper market. The three leading
newspapers, including The New Zealand Herald(NZME), The Dominion Post (Fairfax), and The Press (Fairfax), saw
declines in their circulation numbers.
Related: German Journalist Reveals That The CIA Has Compromised The Western Media

In June 2015, the circulation of The New Zealand Herald was 139,209, down 4.7 per cent from the previous year; the
circulation of The Dominion Post was 64,851(-9.6%) and the circulation of The Press61,573(-7.8%).

However, The Dominion Post has increased its readership. According to Roy Morgan readership results, in 2015 The
Dominion Posts Monday to Saturday readership increased 3.8 per cent from the previous year to 274,000 readers, a gain of
10,000 readers per average issue.

The readership of The New Zealand Herald was 589,000, down 3.3 per cent from 2014, but the paper remained the
countrys most-read daily newspaper. The leading Sunday papers lost readers: the Sunday Star Times had 415,000
readers, down 1.4 per cent. However, the Herald on Sunday lost 11 percent of its readers having readership of 290,000 in
the 12 months to June 2015.

In April 2015, The New Zealand Heralds editor-in-chief Tim Murphy announced that he was stepping down.

In a media statement Jane Hastings, chief executive of NZME said: Tim has guided The New Zealand Herald through some
of the most dynamic years in the papers history including changing format from broadsheet to compact in 2012"

Murphy was appointed as editor-in-chief in 2001 at the age of 37, and he was the youngest person to edit the paper.
In 2015, New Zealands online news - in terms of unique audience - was dominated by Fairfax. Its online site stuff.co.nz
became the most popular New Zealand based website as it overtook Trade Me as the one most visited.

In April 2015, Fairfax appointed the former nzhreald.co.nz editor Jeremy Rees as an editor for its national community titles in
New Zealand.
Sinead Boucher, Fairfax Medias executive editor, said that his role wasto develop our strategy around communities - in
print as well as in digital as well lead innovation as Fairfax sought to grow this very important and strong part of business".

In May 2015, stuff.co.nz had aunique audience of over 1.8 million. Boucher commented that in New Zealand:

The digital world is now defined by Google for search, Facebook for social, and Stuff for content, adding
that usage is the ultimate engagement metric.

In 2014 nzherald.co.nz had a unique audience of 1.2 million, and according to NZME, in 2015 The New Zealand Herald had
a monthly digital audience of 1,383,000, and a total brand audience of 1,821,000".

In order to attract an even greater audience, and in preparation for digital subscriptions, The New Zealand Herald launched
a new data-journalism website entitled Insights in November 2015. The paper noted that thelaunch was a further
demonstration of its commitment to in-depth journalism and new forms of storytelling".

NZME group revenue director Laura Maxwell said in a press release, that the site was generating interest from advertising
agencies which opens up opportunities for revenue generation. In her view, by using data visualising tools, the new
site creates new immersive and creative opportunities for advertisers to align with these engaged audiences".

Another Local Paywall Goes Up, The New Zealand Herald Yet to Follow

In 2015, New Zealand media companies were driving newsroom and other changes to increase their digital and advertising
income. Their need to find new revenue sources is clear, and APN illustrates the point. As mentioned earlier,its 2015 half-
year profit shrank 67 per cent from the previous year. In this context,it is not surprising that NZME is contemplating
paywalls.

In August, the company said thatit would introduce digital registrations for the nzherald.co.nz website by the end of year.

This move precedes introduction of digital subscriptions, or a paywall. Earlier in 2015 the company stated its intention to
monetise online news with memberships, digital subscriptions, and pay as you click articles.

In May APN announced paywalls for its regional newspapers in Australia, and in August 2015 the Toowoomba Chronicle
introduced charges for its online news.
In New Zealand, the National Business Review has digital subscriptions, and local newspapers Whakatane Beacon and The
Ashburton Guardian have also introduced paywalls.

In October another local newspaper, independently owned The Gisborne Herald, announced that it would launch charges
for its online content. The paper stated that some important content on the site will be outside the paywall. Most critically, in
a civil defence emergency all news will be freely accessible.

The papers digital services costabout two-thirds the price of a newspaper subscription - $1 for one day of viewing through
to $200 for a 12-month subscription. Fairfax introduced a paywall for the Australian Financial Review in 2011, and for its
general newspapers The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald in 2013.

Its paywall revenue has gradually increased from AUD$4.8 million in 2013 to AUD$32.7 million in 2015. At the same time its
income from digital classified advertising has increased from AUD$109 million to AUD$161.5 million.
Independents

In 2015, New Zealands independent media outlets included the National Business Review, a privately owned financial news
outlet; privately owned newspaper publisher Allied Press; Scoop, which became a trust owned not-for-profit media outlet,
and BusinessDesk, a privately owned independent news provider focusing on business and financial news.

In September 2015, Scoop, the 16-year old online news publisher, became a non-profit media outlet committed to public
interest journalism. The publishing company was embedded in an independent charitable trust entitled Scoop Foundation
for Public Interest Journalism.
Related: Recharging With Alastair Thompson, Publisher Of Scoop Media

The trust owns the publishing arm of Scoop, called The New Scoop Publishing Company. Before this change, the
companys shareholders included Margaret Thompson (Mother of Scoops editor and publisher Alastair Thompson), Imarda
chief executive Selwyn Pellett, who held 20 per cent of the shares, and journalists Gordon Campbell, Russell Brown and
Pattrick Smellie.

However, in December 2014, Margaret Thompson took full control in the company. According to the National Business
Review, the ownership changes meant that several shareholders are short of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Related: Alternative Media Is Winning: 60% Of Americans [ Read: The West ] Distrust Mainstream Media

Bloggers

The 2013 JMAD New Zealand media ownership report found that the blogosphere was thriving in New Zealand.

As was then stated, the mainstream media was becoming increasingly commercially focused,and therefore there was a gap
in public interest reporting, which bloggers are now trying to fill.
However, the 2014 JMAD report observed after the revelations in Nicky Hagers book Dirty Politics, that blogs are not
necessarily a counterweight to commercial media outlets. The report stated that there is increasing evidence of unethical
alliances among bloggers, politicians, PR companies and legacy media.

In 2015, bloggers kept breaking news stories ahead of the mainstream media. In April, Martyn Bradburys The Daily Blog
broke a story in which an anonymous waitress revealed that Prime Minister John Key kept pulling her hair against her
wishes whenvisiting an Auckland caf.

After The Daily Blog published an anonymous blog written by the waitress, The New Zealand Herald named her in its story
against her wishes. However, Shayne Currie, editor of The New Zealand Herald, said that after the papers gossip
columnist Rachel Glucina interviewed the waitress and the caf owners, no one was in any doubt that the article, quotes
and photograph would be appearing in the Herald".

After the scandal broke, Prime Minister apologised to the waitress for any offence caused. The story was covered
extensively in New Zealand media and abroad by news outlets such as the BBC, the Washington Post, CNN, The
Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Japan Time sand The Hindu.
Related: Its Official, Alternative Media Win Over Mainstream Media

There is no publicly available, reliable data about blog readership numbers and rankings. When asked, Nielsen New
Zealand failed to provide any information concerning blog readership and traffic, and therefore this report cannot discuss the
visitor numbers of unique visits to these sites.

Some ofthe most well-known blogs in New Zealand include Cameron Slaters Whale Oil blog, Martyn Bradburys The Daily
Blog, Russell Browns Hard News, David Farrars Kiwiblog,The Standard and The Dim-Post. Other well-known blogs include
Chris Trotters Bowalley Road and Politik, which was established by Front Page Ltd.

The company produces television news and current affairs programmes as well as television material for commercial clients.
It is headed by the former TVNZ political editor Richard Harman.

New Zealand Media Ownership: Events and Patterns

The ownership structures of leading New Zealand media corporations have changed substantially in the past five years.

None of the commercial media companies are New Zealand owned, and APN is the only one with a media corporation as a
substantial shareholder.

In all four commercially operated media companies ownership has concentrated in hands of financial institutions:
private equity firms, investment banks, banks and managed funds.

In 2015, APNs ownership changed substantially when long-term shareholder, the Irish Independent News and Media (INM),
sold its shares along with telecom billionaire Denis OBrien (he had substantial holdings in both INM and APN). In March,
INM and OBriens investment company Baycliffe Limited sold all their APN shares.

Before the sale, INM owned 18.6 per cent of APNs shares, and Baycliffe 12.2 per cent. Following the sale, Rupert
Murdochs News Corp purchased a 14.99 per cent of APN to become thesecond largest shareholder.

APNs Chairman Peter Cosgrove described this ownership change as a defining moment for APN that also reflects a new
era. News Corp noted that its interest was due to APNs high quality portfolio of Australian and New Zealand radio and
outdoor media assets and small regional print interests.

Following the transaction, in June 2015, APNs chief executive officer Michael Miller resigned from APN to become
executive chairman of News Corp Australasia. He was followed by Ciaran Davis, who was previously chief executive officer
of the Australian Radio Network (ARN) owned by APN.
...

In June 2013 MediaWorks was put into receivership, and consequently sold to a new holding company MediaWorks
Holdings Limited; a syndicate of banks, hedge funds and private equity companies.

In April 2015, MediaWorks announced that American privately owned hedge fund Oaktree Capital owned 77.8 per cent of
the companys shares after purchasing them from Royal Bank of Scotland and Westpac.

Mark Weldon, MediaWorks chief executive officer commented that Oaktree is an experienced, long-terminvestor into media
businesses, referring to the companys involvement in Australian Nine Entertainment.

According to media reports, Oaktree Capital has increased its stake in MediaWorks to 100 per cent, but this hasnt been
officially confirmed.

In October, John Drinnan wrote that in June, Oaktree took full ownership of MediaWorks, which has suffered low morale
and ratings mishaps at its TV operations. He also noted that after Weldon joined MediaWorks in 2014 as a chief executive
officer, he had a rollercoaster ride with disappointing results from TV amid a strategic shift that downgraded news and
current affairs and made more use of reality formats.

Related: The Dumbing Down Of Mainstream Media & The Agendas Driving It

Earlier in April, Nick Grant commented that MediaWorks CEO makes ruthless decisions on a financial basis. Most other
people will take into account various personalities and issues and stakeholders, but Mr Weldon only has one stakeholder
money.

Conclusions

During the past five years, New Zealand media has undergone some substantial ownership changes. The following table
lists some of the major developments in the New Zealand media market from 2011 to 2015.

In general, it can be observed that the financial ownership of APN, Fairfax Media and Sky TV has increased, and their future
is determined by management funds and investment banks which are the largest shareholders in these companies.

In 2015, 20 per cent of Sky TVs shares were owned by three financial institutions; 32 per cent of APNs shares were in
hands of four funds; 44.7 per cent of Fairfaxs shares were owned by five financial institutions, and MediaWorks was owned
by one hedge fund.

At the time of writing, it is clear that the New Zealand media sector has some major structural changes ahead. APN has
indicated that it may still float NZME as a separate company on the New Zealand stock market. At the time of writing
MediaWorkss future seemed uncertain, and the companys management has indicated that it was seeking to sell the
company, or to list it onthe local stock market.

During 2015 it became evident that media corporations need to pursue new partnerships and alliances while they are trying
to recapture audiences, and revenues. In this context it is not surprising that old enemies have started to find new ways to
co-operate.

Competition in the New Zealand broadcasting market has become fiercer, and new entrants to the market have emerged. In
2015, American companies Netflix and Yahoo TV introduced their video streaming services in New Zealand to compete with
existing broadcasters and services.

This report also notes examples of technological innovation among New Zealand media companies.

The National Business Review launched radio service; RNZ experimented with podcasts and video content; NZME
introduced a new data-journalism site, and Scoop used crowd funding to help its transformation to a non-profit news
organisation. Additionally some interesting new content providers, such as The Spinoff, emerged.

Related: These 6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America

Comment: The consolidation of New Zealand media is no different in real terms than that which has been
happening overseas. Such centralisation is not just about fiscal considerations, but power. We see consolidation
happening in all industries and countries. It is far easier for those at the top to continue running the show, shaping
the narrative and indeed in the case of the media - controlling the news and flow of information - when there are
less strings to pull.

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Year Company Development

2011 NZPA Closed after 130 years in operation

Yellow Pages
Launch of hyperlocal site Yellow Local
Group

New Zealand
Launch of Hyperlocal site Localist
Post

Fairfax The company sold its 34% stake in auction site TradeMe in an initial public offering (IPO)

2012 TVNZ TVNZ7 Channel closed after government stopped its funding

APN Increased its stake in group buying site GrabOne to 100%

SkyTV Todd Communications sold its entire stake of 11%

Bauer Media Took over ACP and its magazines such as Metro and N orth & South

Fairfax Sold the remainder of its TradeMe shares

NBR Barry Coleman sold the newspaper to Todd Scott

2013 APN Sold South Island newspapers Christchurch Star and Oamaru Mail to Mainland Media

APN Sold its New Zealand magazines including The Listener to Bauer Group

TVNZ Closed its youth channel TVNZ U

SkyTV Rupert Mursoch's News Limited sold its entire 44% stake in SkyTV

MediaWorks Entered into receivership, sold to a new holding company owned by financial institutions

2014 APN INM's ownership shrinks to 18.6%

APN Rebrands as NZME and prepares for stock market float on NZX

Fairfax Joint venture StreamCo with Nine Entertainment

INM and Baycliffe sell their APN shares - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp buys 14.99% of the
2015 APN
shares, becominf the second largest shareholder

Fairfax Billionarire Gina Rinehart sells all her shares in Fairfax

MediaWorks Hedge fund Oaktree Capital becomes the largest shareholder

Scoop Becomes a trust-owned non-profit media outlet, raises money via crowdfunding

More: Mainstream Media Manipulation, Societal Engineering & Government Propaganda

Elation As Ashburton Council Backs Out Of Controversial Water Bottling Deal
July 14 2016 | From: Stuff

The ditching of a deal to set up a water bottling plant in Canterbury has been hailed "a win for the
Ashburton community.

The Ashburton District Council has backed out of negotiations with NZ Pure Blue to sell Lot 9 of its
business estate, which came with resource consent to extract billions of litres of water from aquifers beneath the
town.

Related: For Sale: 40 Billion Litres Of Canterbury's Purest Water

The council had been under public pressure to drop the sale. A petition with 40,000 signatures opposing the deal was
recently presented to the council.

The Bung the Bore group opposing the sale had threatened legal action, and was pursuing a judicial review of the resource
consent. It is understood the decision to back out of negotiations was made at a public-excluded council meeting last week.
Councillors had been sworn to secrecy until the council released the news on Monday.

Mayor Angus McKay said the potential purchaser failed to tell the council "how they intended to run a water bottling plant
from the site".

In particular, we wanted confirmation that the plant would be using bottles not water bladders ... [this] has given us
enough cause for concern to cancel the Sale and Purchase Agreement," he said.
Jen Branje of Bung the Bore said the group was "elated" at the news.

This decision is a testament to what can be achieved when communities band together to instigate change. We
hope that the outcome of our efforts will encourage others to hold their councils to account."

Green Party water spokesperson Catherine Delahunty called the decision "a win for the Ashburton community.

Everything about this backroom deal was flawed from the lack of consultation to the secrecy around who was to
buy the land," she said.

"We're glad that the council has finally seen the light and have backed down from this ridiculous deal. If they have
to sell public land, which is always debatable, it could at least be for something that is endorsed by and benefits
the whole community, not just those who stand to make a quick buck.

Those who profit from the use of water, like those who bottle and sell it as a premium product, should pay for the
privilege."

The consent, granted by Environment Canterbury (ECan) in 2011, allowed extraction of 1.4 billion litres of pure, artesian
water a year until 2046. It amounted to 40 billion litres of water in total. All water taken would have been replaced with water
from a nearby stockwater race.

Some residents of drought-prone Mid Canterbury - who at times can't hose their gardens due to water restrictions - said the
water was desperately needed locally.

NZ Pure Blue had offered to pay for the relocation of Ashburton's rail siding from the township to a site next to its proposed
water bottling plant. The sale was extended to September 30 so it could negotiate with KiwiRail.

NZ Pure Blue has two New Zealand directors, John Paynter and Roydon Hartnett, but its ownership is concealed through a
trust. Both men refused to speak to Stuff but told a local newspaper the water bottling plant could create around 100 jobs.
The council has also been criticised for a lack of transparency. Some councillors were kept in the dark about details of the
sale, which McKay led.

A previous attempt to sell the site to a Chinese buyer fell through.

McKay said the council was still considering the feedback from Ngi Tahu and Arowhenua Rnanga, the online petition and
the community deputation from two lobby groups presented to council last month.

A report on community feedback to the proposed sale would be presented at the council's July meeting. Branje said the
group was thankful for the support from people around New Zealand.

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New Zealand Considers Taxing Sugar While New Zealand Government Invests $240m
In Coca Cola And Fast Food Chains
July 10 2016 | From: Yahoo

New figures reveal the New Zealand Superannuation Fund and ACC have invested millions of
dollars of taxpayers' money into several global fast food and soft drink companies.
Releasing details of the large-scale government investments on Wednesday, RNZ News reported that, as of May 31,
the New Zealand Superannuation Fund and ACC had $110 million invested in The Coca-Cola Company and its
global subsidiaries.

Related:

They also invested $70m in the The Coca-Cola Company's main rival, Pepsico.

Additionally, $38m was invested into McDonalds in America and Japan, and $17m into Domino's Pizza in Britain and
Australia.

In New Zealand, the Super Fund has $5m invested in Restaurant Brands, which owns restaurant chains KFC, Pizza Hut,
Carl's Junior and Starbucks.
Responding to the newly released figures, Labour Party MP Jenny Salesa reiterated the widespread impact obesity is
having on the country.

"Oh c'mon why is ACC & the Superfund here investing Millions in soft drinks companies when NZ has the 3rd
highest obesity rate in the OECD?," she said on Twitter.

Dental Association spokesperson Rob Beaglehole told RNZ News he was shocked to learn of the "inappropriate"
investments.

Related: MP slams fat portrayal of Maui in new Disney film

Related: Is sugar tax the answer to New Zealand's obesity epidemic?

 "New Zealand is the third fattest country and has the third highest consumption of sugar in the OECD, after Mexico
and the United States. The number one source of sugar for those aged 30 and under comes from sugary
drinks," he said.

A Super Fund spokesperson told RNZ News that while it recognised nutrition was a public health issue there are no plans to
introduce any divestment strategies.

"We have engaged with a number of companies on this matter and will continue to do so. We are not aware of any
mainstream funds which are excluding companies on these issues," the spokesperson said.

The Ministry of Health currently injects $60m each year into obesity prevention programmes.

Related: Little evidence sugar tax works, think tank says

Related: Government not persuaded by health professors lobbying to introduce sugar tax
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A further $40m funds dental care for children.

Global Interest In New Zealand Town With Too Many Jobs

July 3 2016 | From: ChannelNewsAsia

A tiny New Zealand town that offered property for bargain prices in a bid to attract more people
has been swamped with more than 5,000 enquiries from around the world, the local mayor said
Friday.

Clutha District Mayor Bryan Cadogan said the South Island township of Kaitangata had more jobs than people, with
a population of 800 but up to 1,000 vacancies, mostly in the thriving agricultural sector.

To boost its population, the town has been offering house-and-land packages for NZ$230,000 (US$164,000) - a good deal
considering the national average is NZ$577,000, rising to NZ$955,000 in Auckland.

Cadogan said the response had been overwhelming, with global interest from people enquiring about moving to the town,
which is set in a lush valley about an hour's drive from Dunedin.

"We've been smashed," he told TV3. "I think my PA's going to throttle me... there's over 5,000 messages on my
phone, the council website's full. It's just phenomenal."

The town has a coal mine, sawmills and processing factories for the dairy industry.
 "We've got so many jobs in the district, jobs aren't a problem," Cadogan said.

"We've got the jobs, we've got the affordable housing, we've got the beautiful lifestyle. We're pretty lucky."

He said the town had been searching for ways to attract new people for years.

"We did speed dating and a jobs fair last year," he said, admitting the latest promotion had overshadowed them all.

Cadogan said the initial offering of eight land and house packages looked set to be snapped up and the town "will just keep
finding them" if interest warrants it.

"It's a neat wee town with some really positive people and I think it's a hoot of a story," he said.

The Historical & Current Situations In Aotearoa New Zealand

June 30 2016 [Updated July 10 2016] | From: PeterCapper (Te Atiawa / Taranaki Tuturu / Tainui / Te Rarawa)

After 200 years of colonization many Pakeha and Maori feel they have very little knowledge of pre-
colonial Aotearoa. Since the Treaty Of Waitangi signing on February 4, 1840 by over 200 mainly
northern and central north island Sub-Tribal Chiefs.

The signing of the Treaty Of Waitangi led to a huge influx of foreign immigrants mainly from England hoping to
start a new life away from abject poverty in their Motherland and with the penal colonies of Australia only 'across
the ditch', many escaped POME's (Prisoners Of Mother England) also fled to Aotearoa / New Zealand for refuge and
trade opportunities.

A major factor that led to the Treaty of Waitangi were the number of criminals escaping to Aotearoa New Zealand from New
South Wales, Australia. The northern Chiefs wanted Queen Victoria to send a constabulary or some form of governance and
control for the multitudes of drunken sailors plying alcohol, and the halfbreed children running everywhere. This concern
came mainly from Chiefs around Russell, "The Hell Hole Of The Pacific".

Governor Hobson was sent here from NSW with the infamous treaty, where the treaty was for the Crown to create the New
Zealand Government to then govern over their subjects and to govern Maori - with the 1835 Declaration of Independence
and Treaty of Waitangi giving us Tino Rangatiratanga (self determination / governance) whereby the Maori maintain their
sovereignty.

So Maori Sovereignty is self determination in maintaining all traditional and customary rights for all and allowing
Pakeha to govern themselves. Moving forward, the Crown / New Zealand Parliament and Maori would develop 'Best
Practices and Relationships' over time as a united country with two cultures that would respect each others
differences so that we could assimilate together into a unique, well adjusted nation.

Whew, if only huh!

With an estimated population at that point in 1840; of 300,000 Maori and 1,200-1,500 colonial settlers, two thirds being
English, Irish and Scottish and the rest a mix of mostly mainland Europeans such as French, German, Dutch, Dalmatian,
Portuguese, a few Americans and quite a large contingent of Chinese (to build the railroads and search for gold in the South
Island). It is today totally inconceivable that Maori ceded their sovereignty and governance of their GOD-given ancestral
lands - to a handful of greedy Rothschild-owned East India Company agents, Spencer and Russell, land agents who
founded The Bank Of New Zealand.

Pakeha New Zealanders know even less, if anything at all, about the far more important document signed 5 years earlier on
October 28, 1835 between (again) northern and central Hapu / Iwi

The 1835 Maori Declaration Of Independence, represented by The Confederated Chiefs Of The United Tribes Of Aotearoa,
a sitting Parliament of Chieftain descendents of 1835 and 1840, and there are many today claiming this status that has
basically turned the Confederated Chiefs into factions all vying for limited positions within the Confederation.

Add to this the fact that many Maori (estimated at 90%) also know very little if anything of the same founding document (The
1835 Maori Declaration Of Independence), it is no wonder many feel confused, uncertain and ostracised from their own
culture and customs.
Furthermore, the fact that many Pakeha, also know very little if anything of the same founding document, (again, The 1835
Maori Declaration Of Independence) it is no wonder many feel confused about local hisotry.

So why are Maori in this predicament?

Well, being an avid war and military historian, one thing has struck me as obvious! Our Tupuna (ancestors) lie on the
battlefields of South Africa, Turkey, France, Belgium, Greece, Crete, North Africa, Syria, Italy, Germany, Korea, Vietnam
and throughout the Southeast Asian archipelago in there 1000's and for what?

I can't help but recall how on their return how badly these heroes were treated after all these wars by the NZ government of
the day, with many still suffering combat stress and fatigue and no mental healthcare available, menial laborious work on
land no longer theirs with housing and education causing major setbacks causing many dysfunctional families that has
decimated Maori whanau and communities nationwide!

These fine men who never returned from battle were to take the mantle of Tino Rangatiratanga (Self Determination) and
Kawanatanga (Governance) of their respective Iwi and Hapu into a prosperous future and I can not help but remember
stories from the returned veterans that it was common to see young under-age Maori recruits amongst their ranks, some as
young as 14 years old, yet if an underage Pakeha tried to join up, he would be sent home immediately.

Therefore, I and others, have concluded that the government intentionally accepted under-age young Maori recruits
knowing it would devastate their future tribal Chieftain ranks as all knowledge was normally passed down to the Tuakana or
eldest male who now sadly lie in the many foreign cemeteries.

Researchers worldwide are now revealing that all wars since The Battle Of Waterloo in 1815, were created and funded by
the Vatican, Rothschild / Rockefeller Banking Empire, Masonic and Illuminati secret societies with the Vatican / Rothschild /
Rockefeller Khazarian Zionist Transnational Criminal Cabal now infiltrated into every and endorsed by every mainly western
government since - among many other secret and not so secret societies like The Knights Of Malta, The satanic Israeli
Jewish Talmudic faith that Saudi Wahhabism is based and other horrors too unbelievably evil to be discussed in length
here

So did our Tupuna die in vein in some evil master-plan to rule the world by these satanic inspired sick individuals
called the Cabal? It very much seems so!

Hopefully very soon all truth will be revealed to the world and with Maori language, traditions, (Tikanga) and customs (Kawa)
experiencing a renaissance and exciting revival over the last 40 years, many Maori have begun their journey of seeking their
whakapapa (genealogy) in order to find that missing link in their lives with multitudes of Maori of all ages taking to the stages
to engage in their cultural waiata (songs), kapa haka (group performances) and haka (war dance).
The Confederated Chiefs Of United Tribes Of Aotearoa 1834 Flag

Ma pango ma whero ka oti te mahi (If Chief and worker unite together, the work gets done)

With the Waitangi based Confederated Chiefs Maori Parliament operating from the Te Tii Marae Upper and Lower House,
those involved in the leadership of their respective Hapu / Iwi have found it very difficult to find consensus on many very
important and pressing issues amongst those claiming the right to be on the paepae (oratory bench for elders).

The main priority of should be the implementation of governance, infrastructure and administration of their proclaimed
sovereign nation recognized by King William lV himself back in 1834 being a co-designer of the 1834 United Tribes Flag.
(above). However, this is not the case.

Sadly, The Confederated Chiefs Of United Tribes Of Aotearoa has become dysfunctional!

For the Confederated Chiefs of the United Tribes Of Aotearoa to continue on its present path does no one any good, and
only creates friction and conflict amongst whanau that will endure for generations and impedes our long awaited prosperity
and progress. THIS MUST STOP!

To reverse this, it would be advisable to firstly ensure the historical facts as to who has the right to sit in Parliament and on
the paepae.

To do this one would have to sit with kaumatua and kuia (male and female elders) versed in the history of who were
represented at the time of inception and have their signatures or mark on the Declaration Of Independence and / or the
Treaty Of Waitangi, verified!

Without this confirmation, they have no claim to represent their Hapu / Iwi, especially without a mandate from their Hapu and
whanau members.

If there are only 12 seats to fill, then others may need to be added to fairly represent their whanau, Hapu or Iwi.
Once chosen, elected or selected it is then up to the respective representatives to begin the process of governance and
initiating the proper protocols and policies required to operate a nation and its governance successfully and as a full member
of the Confederated Chiefs with a seat on the paepae and any other title that maybe bestowed upon them according to their
constitution.

Another step in the right direction would be to proclaim independence and sovereignty though appropriate channels and
begin alliances in trade, security and anywhere our new nation could be of assistance to the other including joining the
BRICS alliance and the Asian Investment And Infrastructure Bank (AIIB) in essence regaining some of the communal
lifestyles and alliances of the past.

Therefore, it is also advisable to research the history of their respective Hapu / Iwi in depth as knowledge is not only power,
it is a tool and a path to self determination, something every human being should aspire to!

To expect oneself to seek independence, sovereignty and self-determination alone is a very scary path due to the
establishment not wanting us to be self determined in any way and it takes a thick skin to pull it off and endure that lifestyle
until your time is up to ascend to the heavens. However, many are taking that path to total freedom from government
interference anyway.

Maori now have a fantastic opportunity to proclaim sovereignty, either as an individual or as a collective, to be self
determined and achieve the many things we know Maori are capable of!
The world is changing rapidly and many unbelievable opportunities for Maori exist NOW and many more are about to show
themselves in the coming months and years. Maori must prepare and position themselves for this new paradigm and moves
in this direction must be taken now.

Funding for major infrastructure and humanitarian projects are about to be released to well organized organizations with
business and project plans available when the expected global financial reset occurs anytime in the very near future.

Neil Keenan and his organization, Group K, will be releasing these funds when Neil obtains access to The Global Collateral
Accounts worth quazillions (thats 40 zeroes in just one account and there are up to 12) and each country will create a Non
Government Organization (NGO) with no link whatsoever to the corrupt governments, banksters or even the Vatican that we
are now seeing being exposed to the world.

Please ensure your Hapu / Iwi are prepared well to present to Group K their ideal project/s that suits the wishes of its people
as Neil and his team are passionate about their mission to bring an end to the Cabal, release project funding and offer
expert advice to bring our beautiful planet Gaia / Earth back from the brink of destruction.
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A New Map Of New Zealand's Wireless Networks

June 23 2016 | From: MarkHansen

This map draws lines showing the links between antennae like the one shown in the image further
below. You might have seen these towers on top of hills while driving. I always wondered what
they were used for, and where they connected to. Now you can see where the links go, and who
they're for.
It's not just huge antenna mast towers like the one shown below. Hospitals, big businesses, cell towers, weather
stations, and offshore oil rigs are connected with these radio links.

I'm really excited about being able to visualise this data - the map shows over 17,000 locations, and 26,000 point-to-point
links over the whole country.
Here's the visualisation: NZ Wireless Map. Check it out!

Here's just a few interesting things I found exploring the data:

Lake Rotorua
Lakes are awesome to transmit across! They stay flat, and usually have good hills on either side. Lake Rotorua
demonstates this really well - here you can see how densely it's criscrossed with links.

Auckland Skytower

The busiest place I could find, with the most links converging on one location, was the Skytower in Auckland. Here dozens,
if not hundreds of wireless links converge from all over the Auckland region.

Hamilton
Hamilton's a very flat city, and there's not much in the way of mountain ranges nearby. I imagine this would make it difficult
to transmit signals to the roofs of buildings in town. On the map, you can see how transmitting companies have dealt with
this flatness - the few high buildings that do exist are used extensively:

The Hamilton Lake Water Tower (shown)

Waikato Hospital

WEL Building

Signals spread all over town from these vantage points.

Taranaki Oil/Gas fields

You don't usually notice New Zealand's offshore gasfields on maps, but they really stick out on a map of wireless links. You
can see the Maui A and Maui B platforms communicating through a host of links on the Taranaki shore, and the Kupe Gas
field south of the mountain.

White Island

We even have a wireless link set up to an active volcano. Awesome!

Views
Exploring the map, I realised that it inadvertently highlights the best views in the country. Antenna masts are specifically
placed for great views in all directions. Lots of research must go into finding the places with these great views before
spending vast amounts of money erecting a tower.

Why not take advantage of all this research into great views next time you're deciding where to go hiking?

Getting the Data on the Map

It's all open source, available on Github. A friend showed me BarTender's work making maps of cell tower sites he made
using Radio Spectrum Management's database. BarTender explains how he extracted the data from the Microsoft Access
Database dump, into a SQLite database with mdb-sqlite, then used SQL queries and XML tools to manipulate the data into
KML files.

Thanks

Many thanks to the people at Radio Spectrum Management in the Ministry of Economic Development. They've made public
a very high-quality dataset containing all the radio licences in New Zealand. Usually when dealing with datasets with tens of
thousands of points, there's a few problems, but this dataset is pristine. This wouldn't have been possible without their hard
work. Cheers!

Have a look, go exploring, and let me know in the blog comments if you find something interesting. Feedback is much
appreciated.

The Government's Disregard For Evidence Is An Own Goal

June 23 2016 | From: Scoop

By casually dismissing research showing that 90 - day employment trials have not met policy
goals, the Government is undermining its own big data initiative.
The New Zealand Association of Scientists (NZAS) is alarmed at the Governments response to a recent study by
Motu researchers , and asks John Key to consider the implications of undermining his Governments own big data
initiative for short - term political gain.

The Government has invested millions of dollars to construct a database that tracks the performance of every
business and every employee in New Zealand, said the NZAS President Craig Stevens, but for New Zealanders
to benefit from this investment, the Prime Minister needs to be prepared to listen to what the data says."

The 90 - day employment trials were introduced for all businesses after a pilot suggested that the trial periods encouraged
employers to take on new staff and helped those at the margins of the labour market, particularly young people, get jobs".

Using the Governments database, Motu researchers Dr Isabelle Sin and Nathan Chappell were able to measure the impact
of the trials on employment.
They found that it was very unlikely that either of these objectives had been achieved.

By dismissing the results of Motus study as academic and resorting to anecdote to justify the policy instead, said
Stevens, the Prime Minister undermines his Governments stewardship of New Zealanders private data.

"The Association calls on the Government to make responsible use of big data, and this includes ensuring that the
evidence it provides is taken seriously, regardless of whether that evidence is politically palatable.

Stevens said as a society and an economy we face challenges from many sides, to dismiss careful research is not
helpful.

Royal Society Of New Zealand Claims On Seal Level Rise Don't Stand Up
June 13 2016 | From: NewZealandClimateScienceCoalition

The Royal Society of New Zealand has released a study claiming that, in the next
hundred years, New Zealand sea levels will surely rise by 0.3m and 1m is possible. It
strongly recommends that we should be taking action now to deal with this.

The RoyalSociety claim does not stand up to close examination.

First, the rise in sea level and New Zealand coast has been about 0.14 m over the last 100 years with no sign of a recent
increase in the rate.

There is no solid evidence to indicate that this steady rate will increase rapidly in the future. The Royal Society's claims are
based on dubious climate models that predicted that, by now, temperatures would be 0.5 higher than they really are and
increasing faster and faster.

When they fed this dubious data into their sea level models, they predicted rapidly increasing sea level rise. How
surprising!

A Russian climate model alone makes predictions that match recent temperatures. This model assumes that CO2 makes
only a small contribution to global warming. Perhaps it is right!

Related: Humans Are NOT To blame For Global Warming, Says Greenpeace Co-Founder, As He Insists There Is 'No
Scientific Proof' Climate Change Is Manmade

Secondly, they have ignored the fact that, all around New Zealand the land is rising or falling at different rates. So it is quite
wrong to assign a single value of sea level rise to the whole country.

The Royal Societys conclusions are a serious matter because many Councils are now restricting building close to the sea
and putting restrictions on existing houses that have substantially reduced their value.

So what do we really know about sea level rise?

The long-term record is from tide gauges spread around the world. The oldest records date back to the 1890s and the
average rise for 225 tide gauges spread around the world is 1.48 mm per year.

See the data at: www.sealevel.info

This is close to the generally accepted 1.72 mm per year for tide gauges.

In the 1990s, Australia set up a series of very accurate tide gauges all around Australia and on many Pacific Islands.

These show that, for the majority of sites, the sea level rise since the mid-1990s was less than 2 mm per year.
The Pacific Islands record shows, for instance, that the sea level in Tuvalu has hardly changed since 1992. At the moment,
as a result of the current El Nio, Tuvalu sea level is about 100 mm below the level in 1994 - 1997.

According to "Sea level rise history and consequences by Douglas there has been noacceleration of the rate of rise during
the 20th century.

Data is available is from satellite observations since 1993. These show a rise of about 3.2 mm per year with indications of a
recent decline in the rate.

Nobody seems to be able to explain why it is about twice the tide gauge rate. Many climate scientists have adopted the
dubious practice of substituting satellite for tide gauge readings post 1993 so that they can claim that the rate of rise is
increasing.

Predictions of sea level rise from the more realistic of the IPCC computer models range from about 150 mm to 600 mm by
2100. In 2011, NASAs predictions range from 200 mm to 700 mm.

The Ministry for the Environment and NIWA seem to have used an Australian prediction that cobbled the satellite record
onto the tide gauge record and predicts a sea level rise of something like 0.5 m to 0.8 m by 2100.
The Royal Society of New Zealand leads the pack with a projected rise of 0.3 m to 1 m. More than anybody else and much
more than the 0.125 m we would expect if sea level rise continued at its present rate!

So there we have it. All the observational evidence indicates that the sea level is likely to rise 0.1 to 0.2 m by 2100.

But the government, the Royal Society and other public bodies ignore this evidence and, instead, choose to believe the
predictions of the climate and sea level computer models that have never made an accurate prediction.

On the basis of this dubious evidence they are devaluing coastal properties, preventing development in places where, in all
probability, there would be negligible risk for hundreds of years and, on Auckland's north-western motorway at least,
spending millions of dollars on extra raising of the existing road to a level far above the likely sea level rise within its lifetime.

So blind belief in flawed computer models overrules the evidence.

Taxpayers and coastal communities bear the cost.

What we need is an independent study by people with open minds and practical experience of the New Zealand coastline
and sea level rise rather than a group of academics.

It should be noted that many of these academics have careers devoted to supporting the increasingly dubious
hypothesis that man - made carbon dioxide causes dangerous global warming that, in turn, causes rapid sea level
rise.

Related: UN Climate Deal: The Joke Is On Us

Riding Roughshod Over Middle New Zealand - Fiona MacKenzie

June 12 2016 | From: BreakingViews

Our politicians, bureaucrats and journalists are struggling to stay in touch with Middle New
Zealand. Many of them think its unnecessary. After all, they hold the power to tell us what we
ought to think and what we should endure.
The system usually works well for them. The Middlers keep to themselves, too busy with the day-to-day.

Related: Undemocratic Mayors

The problem arises when the people are actually allowed a voice. Referendums must be so frustrating to those who
think they know whats good for us.

Thanks to the binding nature of a couple of recent ones, New Zealand rejected a tea-towel flag and the New Plymouth
Council wont have race-based wards. If only citizen-initiated referendums didnt have to jump so many hurdles and had the
same binding status. The country might then get a few other things right.

Lets Hear from Middle Maori

Another group we dont hear much from are Maori. We certainly hear them referenced by those who want unquestioned
control over government, natural resources and taxpayer funds, but it is hard to know who (other than themselves) these
articulate and manipulative spokespeople actually represent.
Herald columnist, John Roughan, recently railed against Middle New Zealand for not getting with the programme and
accepting that Maori should be granted easy access to government power and control.

So again I ask, who are these Maori who are entitled to unearned privilege and want to be separated out from the
rest of us?

In photos from the latest family wedding, shes fair and beautiful, hes dark and handsome. So do they want to be separated
within our very blended country? Their marriage suggests not.

We are bombarded with what the politically devious, the self-serving and the disaffected think, but is it possible that Middle
Maori could want and believe much the same as other Kiwis?

Mix of World Views

In New Zealand, ethnic-based differences are less obvious than economic ones. Our many skins tones mix and mingle.
People classified as Maori (by themselves or others) range widely from very dark brown to red haired and blued eyed!
There are those who work hard, those who never lift a finger.

There are those who help their families, their communities and New Zealand to prosper. Then there are others who prefer to
obstruct, intimidate and bully. Some want to embrace opportunities to create regional jobs; others resist any change or
cooperation.
Yet were constantly told that Maori have a superior world view to the rest of us and are more entitled. Sure, we could just
take this as gospel (which its fast becoming), but such a mantra can be difficult to fathom.

Is the superior world view that of the guy throwing litter from a car, or of the bloke claiming to have a guardianship role over
the environment? Is it that of a parent who neglects or abuses a child, or that of the dad coaching his kids sports team?

And are the world views of New Zealanders volunteering to plant trees, deal to possums, save Kiwis or provide community
services any less valuable because they have no Maori blood?
There are all sorts in our country and while our politicians, bureaucrats and journalists only listen to the noisy activists, they
may just be missing out on what the people in the middle really think.

Term Limits & Referenda

People in the middle tend to be the steady voice of practical reason those who keep a country functioning and growing
good future citizens. They know how things work and what goes on in real life.

Theyre not so easily persuaded by the latest trends and propaganda, being more interested in what people do than what
they say. If only, the politicians, bureaucrats and journalists would listen to them and work in their best interests rather
than ride roughshod over them.
Perhaps term limits would facilitate this. Imagine if all our politicians and bureaucrats had to give up their day jobs after so
many years at the trough. What a great leveller that would be! They could hit the streets, get an ordinary job and live on an
ordinary income anything that helps them reconnect.

More binding referendums on really important matters might help too. How about the fundamental issue of who should
control water?
Or whether investors should be able to create city housing crises? And whether all references to race and culture should be
removed from the statute books?

If this could be achieved, we might well start living in a true democracy, where every person is equal to his/her neighbour.

MP Nick Smith Hires Lawyer To Silence Child Abuse Ring Rumours

May 14 2016 | From: RealNewsNZ

Member of Parliament Nick Smith hired Nelson lawyer Nigel McFadden to serve papers on the man
who runs the Awake and Aware NZ Facebook page recently.
He was apparently upset about the post below which states that 5 sitting MPs have name suppression for child
abuse, and features a picture of Nick Smith.

If you read the full poster, it does not actually say Nick Smith is one of them, it simply highlights the fact that Kiwis do not
know which MPs it is.

Five sitting / current New Zealand Members of Parliament have name suppression for child abuse
convictions.

Source: WhaleOil

The problem is obviously - the public have no idea who.

But is there more to this story?

Facebook whistle blower Justin Davis has also stated publicly that Nick Smith is in fact involved in a child abuse ring being
operated from his Nelson office.

Justin Davis allegation is posted below and is taken from a total of 58 pages of allegations Justin has made about child
abuse rings operating across various NZ Crown agencies with the full protection of the NZ police and judiciary.

"Make no mistake the pedophiles have police and CYFS in there pockets.

M.P. Nick Smith got a child rape club running right out of his office by a guy called Dan Dolejs, who has links to the
most powerful pedophiles in this country.

If the head of the wellington hospital emergency department Dr Paul Quigley is getting away with drugging and
raping children, which is filmed , what else do you think might be going on ?
 - Justin Davis

It could be noted that Tax Payer Union leader Jordan Williams is also a close friend of Dan Dolejs on Facebook.

Justin Davis full 58 page transcript of these allegations is available for download below. It is a pdf document so cannot harm
your computer. Its a must read for all good Kiwis.

It names many top politicians, doctors, dentists, and powerful businessmen as being involved in kiddie rape rings nationwide
all apparently with the protection of NZ media, police and judges.

It even names the Childrens Commissioner Dr Russell Wills as being involved in the cover up of these rings, as
well as Sensible Sentencing Trust head, Garth McVicar also covering it up.

Warning: The information provided in the following is illicit and highly distrurbing. It names many well-
known New Zealand people and institutions:

You can download a PDF of the raw information claims made by Justin Davis here

Please visit Justin Davis on Facebook- add as friend read his posts check out his photo album ask
him questions- and show your support- his life is in danger.

It seems astounding doesnt it? Is it possible that those in the highest positions of power and prestige in our little Nation are
in fact pedophiles?

Yet if we look over to the UK at the recent Westminster Scandal we in fact see that their Government has been run by
pedophiles and pedophile rings, which have operated for at least 40 years with the apparent full protection of the UK
Judiciary and power structure.

Over 100,000 children have come forward and claimed they were raped (or worse) by British Lords, judges, celebrities and
MPs, and yet there has still not been one arrest. In fact, NZ Judge Lowell Goddard has been put in charge of that
investigation which is of course just another cover up.

It seems that this is the way that our Governments are controlled, by promoting then bribing and controlling pedophiles into
positions of power.
John Key pictured feeling up Ponytails at every opportunity.

Related: On Pony Tails And Cherries On Top Or Why This Is Getting Way Worse For John Key

We should make it clear here that we have no hard evidence that Nick Smith or anyone else named in the Justin Davis files
are directly involved in NZ pedophile rings but if you read the document, the level of detail is astounding. It is almost
impossible to think it is all made up, in our opinion.

Perhaps one clue as to this alleged situation, is to look at the portfolios these MPs are given to manage. Nick Smith has of
course been put in charge of Auckland Housing and we have seen that market destroyed by foreign buyers and immigration
since the Key regime came to power, leaving almost an entire generation of Kiwis out of the market.
Smith has been kicked out of parliament because of his screw ups, but as in the case with others such as Judith Collins -
after a few months in the dog box (or more to the point when the sheeply have forgotten about their past crimes) they get
shoe-horned back into parliament!

Nick Smith has been fronting that entire scam - possibly one of the biggest scams of any NZ government in history, and Nick
Smith is there in front of the cameras making excuses and telling lies day after day. How do you make someone do that?

His other portfolio is the Environment, as we have seen our lakes and rivers be destroyed by intensive dairy farming to feed
Chinese babies.
Related: River Stance: Water Pollution In New Zealand

Again, there is MP Nick Smith on the news telling lies and helping cover up the extent of the damage. How does the shadow
government convince someone to make such a complete asshole out of themselves day after day? And could that be
related to the allegations above?

We have also seen at least one MP stand down suddenly in recent years, in a swirl of allegations, that being Northland MP
Mike Sabin. The public were left guessing what that was all about.

Then there is PM John Keys numerous pedophilia gaffs from pulling little girls ponytails at primary schools up and down
the Nation, to making jokes about escaped pedophile and murderer Phillip Smith at the G20 meeting in Brazil a couple of
years ago. John Keys killer pedophile joke disgusts family .

John Keys own daughter Stephanie Key is now doing soft porn in Paris, which looks very much like a cry for attention and
help in our view.

Stephanie key - also known as"Cherry Lazar":

This is classic MK Ultra mind control symbolism

Related: Monarch Mind Control & The MK-Ultra Program

This is Stephanie Key also:

Nothing like a smattering of Satanism

In our opinion- the question must be asked, are we governed over by an elite group of child sex offenders and perverts who
are all being bribed and controlled into taxing us all to fund the Rothschild bank debt we have been laden with in recent
years?
Are we indeed Governed by a Global gang of inbred Rothschild pedophiles? Many across the internet seem to agree that
we are. just chuck Rothschild pedophiles into Youtube and Google and read the evidence all day long.

And hugging Bill Clinton, a serial rapist named in the Epstein pedophile ring court documents. Also Stephanie Keys art or cry for help?)

Related Research and Docos:

NZ author Greg Hallett alleges the NZ judiciary is a pedophile movement:

Greg Hallett NZ a Blackmailers Guide

"The judiciary shows itself to be a paedophile and crime creation movement whose primary goal is fatherless
families.

Brendon OConnell exposes pedophile Freemasons in the Australian Government and Councils:
Foreign Control Of New Zealand: Key Facts
May 13 2016 | From: CAFCA

Foreign direct investment (ownership of companies) in New Zealand increased from $15.7 billion in
March 1989 to $110.6 billion at March 2015 over seven times.

As a proportion of the total output of the economy, Gross Domestic Product, it has risen from 22% to 46%.

Ownership of overseas companies by New Zealand residents has not grown as fast over that period (over five times) so net
foreign direct investment has grown eight and a half times from a net liability of $8.8 billion to $74.6 billion, and as a
percentage of GDP multiplied two and half times from 13% of GDP to 31%.

Foreign Direct Investment from International Investment Position, National Accounts, Statistics New Zealand, InfoShare series IIP088AA. GDP from
National Accounts, Statistics New Zealand, InfoShare series SNE038AA.

Foreign owners controlled 33% of the share market in 2015. In 1989, the figure was 19% and it was estimated to be below
5% in 1986.

At March 2014, they owned an estimated 29% of all equity (shareholdings) and 37% of privately owned equity, including
shares not listed on the stock exchange.

Foreign investors owned 27% (or $355 billion) of wealth in New Zealand whose commercial net value totalled $1.3 trillion at
March 2015.
This comprised housing, land, other property, plant, equipment and financial assets owned directly or indirectly by
households, government and foreign investors. New Zealand residents owned a further $202 billion of investments abroad.
(These totals exclude wealth held by non-profit organisations, shared natural wealth such as rivers, and human and social
capital.)

1986, 1987, 2012, 2014: "Brian Gaynor: New Zealanders buy back their sharemarket", New Zealand Herald, 19 October 2013; and "Brian Gaynor:
Potential problems in NZX's high level of foreign investment", New Zealand Herald, 31 January 2015; 1989-1997: "Corporate Governance Research
on New Zealand Listed Companies", by Mark Fox, Gordon Walker and Alma Pekmezovic, Arizona Journal of International & Comparative Law Vol.
29, No. 1, 2012, Table 4, p.16. 1997-2010: "Savings and the Equity Market" - JBWere submission to the Savings Working Group, November 2010,
p.2. 2011: GS Annual NZX ownership survey. 2013, 15: "Who We Are - NZ's Capital Markets - NZX", accessed 3 April 2016. Equity estimates are
non-official estimates provided by Statistics New Zealand. Wealth is calculated from Reserve Bank series C22: Household balance sheet;
Treasury's Fiscal Time Series; Statistics New Zealand's International Investment Position: Directional basis stock of direct investment by country
(Annual-Mar), InfoShare series IIP081AA.

In 2015, the OIO approved the sale of 75,008 hectares of freehold rural land and 4,889 hectares of leases and other
interests in land to foreigners. About 43,000 hectares of the freehold land and 4,000 hectares of the leases and other
interests in land were from one foreign investor to another.
In the decade 2006 to 2015, the average was 124,012 hectares of freehold and 42,044 hectares of leases and other
interests in land approved for sale. Statistics on sales of land to overseas interests are poorly recorded and incomplete.

Our best estimate is that in 2011 at least 8.7 percent of New Zealand farmland including forestry, or 1.3 million hectares,
was foreign-owned or controlled and it could have reached 10 percent.

Overseas Investment Commission and Overseas Investment Office. Overseas Ownership Of Land: Far Greater Than The 1% The PM Claims, by
Bill Rosenberg

In 2014, the OIO approved the sale of 38,120 hectares of freehold rural land and 2,671 hectares of leases and other
interests in land to foreigners. About 12,000 hectares of the freehold land and 1,000 hectares of the leases and other
interests in land were from one foreign investor to another.

In the decade 2005 to 2014, the average was 131,488 hectares of freehold and 43,162 hectares of leases and other
interests in land approved for sale. Statistics on sales of land to overseas interests are poorly recorded and incomplete. Our
best estimate is that in 2011 at least 8.7 percent of New Zealand farmland including forestry, or 1.3 million hectares, was
foreign-owned or controlled and it could have reached 10 percent.

Overseas Investment Commission and Overseas Investment Office.

"Overseas Ownership Of Land: Far Greater Than The 1% The PM Claims", by Bill Rosenberg (www.converge.org.nz)

Statistics NZ figures, as of March 2015, list the biggest foreign owners of New Zealand companies as being from, in
decreasing order: Australia, US, Hong Kong, UK, Singapore, Japan, Canada, Netherlands, British Virgin Islands, Ireland,
Cayman Islands, China, Switzerland, Norway and France.

All had over $160m in foreign direct investment in New Zealand. These accounted for 96% of foreign direct investment in
New Zealand and Australia alone accounts for 52%. British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands are tax havens, and a
Statistics New Zealand study showed that in 2010, large proportions of the foreign direct investment from the Netherlands,
Singapore, Hong Kong and tax havens was in fact from other countries, led by the UK, US, Germany and Canada.

In 2015, Other tax havens with investments in New Zealand companies include Vanuatu, Channel Islands, Liechtenstein,
Bermuda and the Bahamas, but for all except Bermuda, the value of their holdings has been suppressed as confidential.

Bermuda has shown a negative investment in New Zealand companies since 2009 (negative $1.8 billion in 2015). So has
Germany since 2013. Negative investment suggests that the companies may have been loaded with debt to their parents or
are technically insolvent.

International Investment Position, Statistics New Zealand: Directional basis stock of direct investment by country (Annual-Mar), InfoShare series
IIP081AA. Note that these statistics are compiled on a different basis from those also from Statistics New Zealand above, so the total, $97.4b, does
not match. These are compiled on a "directional" basis, based on ultimate nationality of ownership; the above are on a "balance sheet" basis, based
on residency of the company. Industry statistics below are also compiled on a directional basis.

Mallika Kelkar. (2011). "The ultimate sources of foreign direct investment (p. 19). Presented at the New Zealand Association of Economists (NZAE)
Conference, Wellington, New Zealand. Retrieved from stats.govt.nz

The Financial and insurance services sector, which includes the four big Australian owned banks, accounted for by far the
biggest part of foreign ownership of New Zealand companies by industry in March 2015, with $32.1 billion. Next was
Manufacturing at $14.7 billion.

Other industries having more than $1 billion of foreign investment were in decreasing size, Agriculture, forestry, and fishing;
Retail trade; Wholesale trade; Electricity, gas, water and waste services; Rental, hiring and real estate services;
Professional, scientific and technical services; Mining; Information media and telecommunications; and Health care and
social assistance.

$16.6 billion was unable to be allocated to an industry because of the way foreign direct investment is estimated, or was
suppressed as being confidential.

Source: International Investment Position, Directional basis stock of direct investment by industry (Annual-Mar), InfoShare series IIP080AA -
Statistics New Zealand. See note regarding country statistics.

Transnational corporations (TNCs) make massive profits out of New Zealand. These can truly be called New Zealand's
biggest invisible export. In the year to March 2015, they were $9.0 billion. Over the last decade they have averaged more
than the combined exports of seafood and milk powder.
In the decade 2006-2015, TNCs made $77.5 billion in profits from New Zealand, an average rate of profit after tax on their
shareholdings of 12.5% (12.0% in the year to March 2015). Only 26% was reinvested (only 15% in the year to March 2015).
Profits have averaged twice the increase in foreign direct investment holdings each year.

Balance of Payments: Current account primary income (Annual-Mar), InfoShare Series BOP058AA; Current account investment income by sector
(Annual-Mar), InfoShare series BOP059AA; and Balance of payments major components (Annual-Mar), InfoShare series BOP055AA Statistics
New Zealand.

Another $7.9 billion left New Zealand in the year to March 2015 made up of investment income from debt and smaller
shareholdings (portfolio investment), making a total $16.9 billion. Over the last decade this has averaged more than the
combined dairy and forest product exports.

Related: International Ownership of New Zealand Banks

More than two out of every five dollars of the $16.9 billion went to the owners of New Zealand's banking sector: $6.9 billion.
The investment income from overseas ownership of the banking sector ("Deposit taking corporations") after taking account
of its small investment income from abroad, accounted for four out of every five dollars of New Zealand's current account
deficit in the year to March 2015: $6.5 billion compared to $8.1 billion.

The investment income deficit (income on New Zealand investment overseas less income on foreign investment in New
Zealand) has been greater than the current account deficit for all but two years since 1989, which further increases New
Zealand's foreign liabilities.

Exports: Key Statistics Table 7.04 - Value of principal exports (excl re-exports), InfoShare series EXP005AA - Statistics New Zealand.

Foreign investors are not great for employment - they only employ 17% of the workforce (down from 21% in 2000), despite
owning a large proportion of the economy. Foreign ownership does not guarantee more jobs. In fact, it quite often adds to
unemployment. TNCs have made tens of thousands jobless.
Business demography statistics: Enterprises by industry and overseas equity 2000-15, Statistics New Zealand, available in NZ.Stat.

Related: New Zealand National Debt Clock

Foreign ownership does nothing to improve New Zealand's foreign debt problem. In 1989, total private and public foreign
debt stood at $47.5 billion, equivalent to about two-thirds of New Zealand's Gross Domestic Product, and worth $86.4 billion
in March 2015 dollars.

As of March 2015, it was $246.2 billion (or $270.9 billion including derivatives), equivalent to 102% of New Zealand's Gross
Domestic Product despite being helped out temporarily by $20.2 billion of insurance claims for the Canterbury earthquakes
and all of the asset sales and takeovers.

Source: Statistics New Zealand as follows: International investment position (IIP) (Annual-Mar) InfoShare series IIP088AA; External lending and
debt by sector and relationship (Annual-Mar) InfoShare series IIP078AA; International non-equity financial instruments by sector (Annual-Mar)
InfoShare series IIP074AA;

New Zealand's A&L - Level 3 Components (Discontinued March 2000) (Annual-Mar) InfoShare series IIP007AA; GDP(P), Nominal, Actual, Total
(Annual-Mar) InfoShare series SNE038AA; overseas reinsurance claims from the Canterbury earthquakes http://tinyurl.com/j9kmree

Downloads:

Graphs to accompany the Key Facts information shown below are available to download in Microsoft PowerPoint (.PPT) or
Adobe Acrobat (.PDF) format.

Each page of the Adobe Acrobat version has a small square in the top left corner. Hovering the mouse over this square
shows the source of the information in more detail.

Key Facts graphs (PPT 151KB)

Key Facts graphs (PDF 306KB)

Note that there are often revisions to official data, leading to some changes to reported data for past years.

100 Days - Claiming Back New Zealand

April 20 2016 | From: 100DaysToDemocracy

Horrified and shocked-she isnt the only one: This isnt the New Zealand our parents and
grandparents lived in* - and were certainly not the better for it.

So isnt it high time we started holding to account the politicians whove been so very largely responsible for this,
and for the fact that many New Zealanders are now finding it difficult to afford living here in what is (or was?)
our own country?

Its not a good sign when those returning from the UK, for example, comment on how much more expensive everything is
now food, electricity, very basic living costs.

Even more crucially, we now have the least affordable houses of any country in the world in relation to income although
we all remember Prime Minister John Key blatantly denying there was even a housing shortage in Auckland. How could he
have not known?

NZ Herald: Home truths: Can you afford to buy in New Zealand?

So perhaps its not surprising that PM John Key has been so very keen to get rid of the flag that they* and we have long
lived underthe one flying over us all. John Key wanted the Union Jack removed, and apparently, the politicized Chinese
with whom he gets on so very well agreed with him. Of course.
Related: What Is The Real Agenda Behind John Key's Drive To Change The New Zealand Flag: Due Authority - A
Very Silent Coup?

But not Hong Kong Chinese, fighting for basic freedoms against their predatory neighbour. Hong Kong Chinese apparently
value the Union Jack, saying it represents the freedoms they had under the British and no longer have, and that it expresses
the difference in values between Hong Kong and its over-authoritarian Communist government.

All the nonsense talked by Key and parroted by the inner circles of government about New Zealanders needing to discover
our national identity and our own place in the world is basically manipulation.

How many of us go to sleep fretting about our national identity?

Mind you, as its increasingly not being seen as our own country any more, this question is going to be raised but not as
the PM apparently wants. We pretty well knew our own place in the world in fact we owned our own place. But do we
now?

Increasingly New Zealanders feel that we dont. Nor will many of us have been impressed by learning that Key also sent a
text to former All Blacks captain Richie McCaw (whom weve recently seen in an advertisement for an Australian-owned
bank) and his team-mate, Dan Carter, asking them to watch his video promoting a flag change.
Whether this is appropriate behaviour for a Prime Minister, and whether sporting figures would be wiser to refrain from being
lured into looking too close to powerful politicians is another issue.

The PM, of course, has his devoted cheerleaders among the media, so perhaps its not so extraordinary as it would
otherwise be that we can guarantee many of them are managing not to look too closely at the essentially vulgar antics which
have been his trademark at a personal level.

However, more worryingly, what should be a proudly independent fourth estate manages to pretty well look the other way
and to barely, if at all, mention happenings which are so extraordinary that they should have us all shocked and horrified
not just the individual who heard, second-hand, of the one below.

It has been, culpably, so little reported that we should be doubly grateful to Senior Herald reporter, David Fisher, for making
us aware that the Prime Minister was the guest of honour at a private fundraising lunch held at an Auckland Chinese
restaurant.

The point is that it was hosted by the Change the Flag lobby group to raise cash from wealthy Chinese donors who
supported the flag change. A small handful of Nationals MPs were there, too.

It was all to fund a last-minute push for votes, including a pamphlet to send out just days before the voting started.
This small, exclusive lunch was not publicly advertised, and the Change the Flag chairman, Lewis Holden,
confirmed not the names of the donors, but that over $100,000 was raised for the entire campaign.

He admitted that some was donated by the Chinese donors who wanted the Union Jack gone from the New Zealand ensign,
Mr Holden commented naively, some would say.
In January, Taiwan elected its first female president after a furoreWe knew there was support in the Chinese community
because of the Union Jack" just before Election Day when a 16 year old Taiwanese singer for a girl band was forced to give
a forlorn apology for holding a Taiwanese flag on a TV show. China has refused to allow the 7.2 million people of Hong
Kong a free vote next year on deciding who will lead the city.

And reportedly, an uproar in Hong Kong over the disappearance of five dissident booksellers believed to be in the hands of
the Chinese security services has also understandably a had huge impact on public opinion in Taiwan.

This of course, is typical behaviour from a brutal Communist rgime which imprisons, tortures and even executes
dissidents (let alone its continued opposition to Chinese Christians, and its appalling record of farming the Falun
Gong to forcibly remove their organs for live transplants organs.

Not that New Zealand ever officially and publicly protests any more than many countries similarly turned a blind eye to the
appalling and barbarous treatment that Nazi Germany showed to its Jewish population, in World War 11.

And yet, does or does not a country have a moral responsibility to make its views publicly known about a trade partners
oppression of its own people? Is it okay to just look away, to pretend it isnt happening or doesnt really count?

Mr Holden should have specified that he was referring only to the increasingly large Communist Chinese community in this
country.
Other long-settled Chinese in New Zealand would not only disagree (including a highly respected academic who protested
in his youth at the butchery of Tiananmen Square) but are deeply concerned at the influence that Communist Chinese
interests are apparently having on our National Party government, dominated by its acknowledged authoritarian leader.

In fact, Mr Holden admitted he was pretty surprised that John Key agreed to come. Concerned New Zealanders who have
been asking what is happening to this country, and why we have the state we are now in, are not all surprised. After all, the
buck stops at the top.

Interestingly enough, too, back in November, 2015, a Facebook user John Miller spotted another flag design one of those
proposed appearing on the labelling for New Zealand apples in Shanghai. He asked, Do the Chinese know something
about the outcome of our flag referendum that we dont know yet?"

NZ Herald: Alternate flag design used in Shanghai

The same flag was reported as being flown at a butchers shop in the United Arab Emirates. Somebody must have been
pretty certain that the flag change was a done deal.

Three cheers for the New Zealanders who got the whiff, from somewhere, of a decaying rat, and put a stop to this attack on
a heritage we can be proud of, in spite of all the unfair, and highly suspect, disparaging of colonialism.

As Hong Kong can testify, and as other African nations show us, its a wise observation that there are far worse things than
colonisation, and that post-colonisation is apparently one of them.
Similar to the Prime Ministers former denial of any problem with the Auckland current housing market has been his
repudiating any connection with the uncontrolled immigration flooding the country.

The migration influx is breaking all records with, as reporter Hamish Rutherford informs us, the net gain last year being
equivalent to a city the size of Nelson. In one year alone

John Keys simplistic assertion that unrestricted immigration is of economic benefit to the country has long been
disproved. So why does he keep repeating it?

As Westpac senior economist Anne Boniface says, record immigration:

"Is helping to maintain a semblance of strong economic growth but the preponderance of people in the labour
market is keeping wage growth lower than would otherwise be.

And of course it is the unprecedented demand for housing from those flooding into the country, plus the ability of far more
wealthy immigrants to outbid New Zealanders for our own houses, which has us at crisis point although the government of
course is not acknowledging this.

Nor is the building of new houses anywhere near able to compensate for the extraordinary demand, not with virtually 68,000
in the year ended in February this year.

The result is not only a dramatic shortage of houses but of decent jobs (some now observably preferentially offered to
Chinese workers paid less by Chinese business owners and employers).

The flow-on effect includes shortages not only of housing and of wealthy property investors outbidding New Zealanders to
rent back what should be their own houses to them.
Theres now an unprecedented exodus to the provinces with a leap of house-buying driving house prices outside Auckland
up beyond the reach of local residents.

Pressure has increased on land, on hospitals and all other social services

So the questions are being asked:

Why is National, under its leader, John Key, more interested in protecting the interests of potential NZ migrants and
offshore investors over and above the large and growing number of Kiwis priced out of the market?

The comments keep coming that National has been in Government for 9 years and it has the power to effect change, but
that it wilfully does not because John Key thinks that rising house prices are good politics.

But if it isnt being brought home to more and more New Zealanders that it is shameful for our government to protect the
interests of people who dont even live here above those of New Zealanders themselves -then it should be.

But is there more to all this than a seemingly nave National Party leader having his own way? In the real world, where the
uber-wealthy are looking for bolt-holes to escape the increasing scrutiny of their governments, New Zealand has long been
viewed as a ripe plum ready for the picking.

Super-rich overseas owners, with obliging specialists lawyers to hand, have already hoovered up our high country sheep
stations and farms, some owning multiple properties, including our scenic assets and, seemingly whatever takes their
fancy (in spite of the OIOs supposed scrutiny of the value of these land grabs to New Zealanders).
It doesnt take anything more than commonsense to take on board the fact as more and more of our farms, our land and our
houses are bought up by immigrants or pass into overseas ownership, more and more New Zealanders are being squeezed
out of owning these.

Its a depressing scenario for the dairy sector as banks face possible billions in write-offs. John Key admits that low dairy
prices may see banks facing losses with farmers forced to sell, but, in a cavalier fashion dismisses the prospect as
normal for businesses.

This sort of pragmatism, an indifferent approach to those facing the devastating prospect of losing their family farms and
homes, walks past the point of who is going to be in a position to actually buy the land particularly when the Reserve Bank
states that under its severe scenario it is unclear whether there would be sufficient cash among buyers to absorb the added
number of farms which would inevitably be put up for sale.

Unclear in relation to New Zealand buyers, perhaps, but there is no shortage of finance from Chinese sources.

While a number of foreign nationals have been busy acquiring what they can, more or less under the radar, it is the very real
threat to our sovereignty from Communist Chinese interests underpinning Chinese investment which is most ominous.
A Financial Times article of March 2016 by Lucy Hornsby The Great Land Rush: Chinas Pengxin hits overseas hurdles
points to the marketing of Theland with where cows gaze on emerald grass below white clouds shaped like New Zealand.

It makes the point that Pengxin;

"A little-known Shanghai real estate developer that owns Theland, will become the worlds largest private
landowner if Australias authorities clear its most ambitious bid yet, to gain control of the grazing lands of the S
Kidman & Co cattle empire. That, plus holdings in New Zealand, makes Pengxin the boldest of Chinese
corporations investing in land, and has helped trigger a backlash."

It continues: The financial Times, in a series of reports, is examining governments and private investors
increasing interest in grand scale land deals. With the commodity supercycle ending, land the ultimate resource
could either become the next big thing or the source of cross-border disputes In November, Australia blocked
the A$350 million sale on security grounds. But there are further complications.

Pengxins bid for Kidman draws on its experience as Chinas largest land investor in New Zealand. However,
(reportedly) its expansion there has reached a limit only months after it announced plans to double its Kiwi assets
to NZ$1bn, or 50 farms. In reply to written questions from the FT, Terry Lee, the president of overseas investment
for Pengxin, wrote that investing in New Zealand farmlandhas been more challenging than we thought.

This is excellent news and is no doubt due to those very few reporters and columnists to whom New Zealanders owe
a great deal for their spotlighting of these issues as well as to those who have been asking the questions that our
government would apparently prefer not to answer.

What the Financial Times also noted was the understandable rising resentment in this country;

"After property documents, leaked to New Zealand media, showed buyers with Chinese surnames accounted for
half the purchases of Auckland homes worth more than NZ$1m.
Meanwhile, in Australia. Canberra is reviewing foreign investment rules, and has cut the threshold for approval of foreign
acquisitions of rural land from A$252m to A$15m.

Moreover, a new registry of foreign-owned agricultural land goes public this year. Already, in Australia, there is much more
scrutiny of foreign investors wanting to buy Australian housing stock, and each application must undergo appropriate review.

The paper further states that as Chinas urban sprawl consumes and pollutes farmland, Beijing has given tacit blessing to
agricultural investment overseas.

This is a considerable understatement. As a 60 Minutes programme pointed out, Chinese investors are being financially
equipped by the Chinese government to buy up as much in the way of productive farmland, stock, and business fed by this
industry as well as means of transport, including shipping for the benefit of China alone.

"Australia and New Zealand are top destinations because foreigners can own land outright, but resentment over
Chinese investors buying residential property has curdled the political environment.

In the eyes of New Zealanders it hasnt curdled it enough, given that the government has not moved to protect New
Zealanders from being disadvantaged in our own land.

Moreover, as one of the three primary obligations of government is the defence of the realm, it can be legitimately argued
that the government is failing in its responsibility to defend New Zealanders from these takeovers.

Why, it is increasingly asked, can foreigners still buy up own land outright? Why is it is still being allowed to
happen?

Reportedly, wooing Maori sellers and flying well-heeled Chinese tourists around New Zealand has paid well for those
promoting sales of our assets. It can also be legitimately argued that enthusiastically promoting Chinese tourism may be
working to our own disadvantage, for obvious reasons.

The fact, too, that Pengxin is reportedly building its own integrated dairy business, is a direct challenge to our already
struggling Fonterra, our major dairy exporter upon whom thousands of New Zealand farmers depend.

No wonder that global market forces are coming into conflict with local populations, given the fact that nobody is making
more land (except, in fact, the Communist Chinese, arousing disquiet through their aggressive military expansions as well
as through attempts to circumvent legal requirements within a host country) .
Yes, this comes from another political party. But don't let that fool you - notice how it doesn't matter which party is in power, they all follow the same
agenda. And so while Labour is critical as the opposition - nothing would change under their leadership

Kerry Brown, Professor of Chinese studies at Kings College London, points out that China is a real problem for Australia
and New Zealand with its huge markets growth potential and very real needs. His warning is timely, namely, that
underneath;

China remains alien in terms of fundamental values and political beliefs."

The implications are clear, and as has been well stated, those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it. The
lesson of the Trojan horse Timeo Danaos, et dona ferentes
I fear the Greeks, especially when they are bringing gifts is to all intents and purposes ignored by the John Key
government enthusing over a damaging flood of immigration and a level of foreign investment which threatens our own
productive economy.

A recent National Business Review editorial points out Chinese companies have so far this year bought more foreign
companies than during the whole of last year.

In the past few years, most of the interest has been in agri-business. Recent deals in New Zealand have included
dairy farms and factories, meat companies and horticultural ventures as well as companies such as PGG
Wrightson

The Chinese are also seeking high technology companies but this is proving difficultthe wave of purchases has
spread to the hospitality sector and entertainment.

An additional NBR editorial, discussing the revelations of the Panama Papers, notes that a third of the business of a law firm
involved has been in helping Chinese clients ship their money overseas and out of reach of the Communist regime.

A BBC report How Chinas wealth is sneaked abroad, implicates New Zealand as a major target for a property-
buying spree totalling US$ 32 billion around the world last year.

A featured comment will have resonated with many:

 The government should be embarrassed by this not only have they turned a blind eye to the Communist
Chinese money coming into NZ (despite the anti-money laundering rules), they have allowed the Auckland
property market to be grossly inflated by a Chinese investors.

Where to from here? The lesson from all this is that China is trouble. Not only are its Communist values in direct contrast to
those of the democratic West, it is notorious for its electronic spying, including attempting to hack into government and
defence security systems.

This of course, will predictably, include our own a fact which raises the question: What was former left-leaning Prime
Minister Helen Clark thinking when she allowed, in fact welcomed a procession of top-ranking Chinese military officials
coming to be shown around New Zealand inspecting our military bases, our equipment and familiarising themselves with
our obvious inability to defend this small country?

Does anyone really believe she was simply ignorant of Communist Chinas ambition in this area? If not, what was
her motive in doing so?

And now, at the very time when concern about Chinese military aggression in the Pacific has America considering setting up
military bases in Australia, it needs to be far more widely known that that late in 2015, National s Defence Minister, Gerry
Brownlee, farcically lectured our giant, predatory neighbour, exhorting it to behave like a big country in the South China
sea (where it is causing tension with other regional powers, and with the USA.)

Sent of course by our Prime Minister, he thought it fit to sign a five-year military defence alliance with this Communist
country, while clumsily stating that New Zealands relationships with Chinese and US defence forces are not mutually
exclusive.

But in fact they are. Its almost incomprehensible that we should have signed such a military defence pact with this
aggressively confrontational country. Chinas Communist leadership, with its natural affinity for North Korea, is, for all its
trade alliances, no friend to the West a fact that most New Zealanders perceive even though Keys National government
is apparently determinedly avoiding facing this fact.
As a consequence, and given the weakness of what should be our major Opposition party, New Zealanders are well and
truly on the way to becoming tenants in our own country.

For this reason, even those who do not support the left-wing Chris Trotters political views, may well agree with his
statement that New Zealanders disengagement from the political process (in which we were once among the worlds most
enthusiastic participants) has been accompanied, and justified, by the widely held belief that politics has become an almost
entirely disreputable profession.

His vague assertion that the answer lies with, and in us the New Zealand electorate suggests no concrete solution.

But there is one. It does not matter that it would be a most unwelcome one to by far the majority of our politicians, and to
those with the money and influence to assist the government in its decision-making. And here I recall former Finance
Minister Ruth Richardson thanking millionaire Doug Myers, then Chairman of the New Zealand Business Roundtable for his
valuable help to her in her portfolio)

We all know that we have moved a long way from being a far more democratic country that we once were. The loss of our
freedoms has been gathering pace even freedom of speech let alone the ability to be genuinely involved in the decision-
making of our governments although this very much affects us.

Reforms are undertaken from time to time as with the now signalled, but well overdue simplification of our tax system. Too
little, too late for so many. But apart from our ability to routinely throw out governments which have caused perceivable
damage to our country, in the interval between our elections the government elected as the lesser of two evils inevitably
claims a mandate for actions for which it has no genuine mandate at all.

The solution? It is what the highly intelligent Swiss have long insisted on the reform of our political system so that any
legislation passed by Parliament, no matter what party is in power, nor what deal-making has gone on behind the scenes,
has to wait for 100 Days.
This mandatory stop on all proposed laws gives the people of the country time to examine it for fishhooks. If satisfied, they
allow it to pass. If they are not, it takes a very small proportion of their electorate (50,000 in a county with double our
population) to call for a special kind of referendum, the results of which are binding on their government.

The fact that this provision is there puts a stop to constant trade-offs, in contrast to the never-ending passing of legislation
which pours forth from our own government whereas Swiss parliamentarians meet only once a week, and are able to hold
down day jobs.

For more information on how the Swiss govern themselves, visit our website at www. 100days.co.nz

Above all, we need to remember that there is nothing so powerful as an idea whose time has come and there is
nothing more effective than individuals joining together to achieve a tipping point to insist on being genuinely part
of our countrys decision-making.
Controlling our politicians though the eminently achievable 100 days initiative, now well under way, is available to each of
us.

Each of us not everybody else. If you are concerned about what is happening to our country, please support us! We need
you all.

Amy Brooke, Convener. See my book 100 Days Claiming Back New Zealand what has gone wrong, and how we can
control our politicians. Available through www.copypress.co.nz or HATM Publishers.

Hypocrisy And The Water Debate

April 19 2016 | From: NZPCR

The water debate is heating up, with orchestrated attacks on water bottling companies. Maori
leaders want a price on water.

With the resource estimated to be worth $35 billion a year, they know that once National give them control of fresh
water, they will be able to claim royalty payments for future use and compensation for lost revenue.

As the Maori Council chair Maanu Paul said on Tuesday;

Any commercial operation will have to pay a fee, and that is the issue as far as the council is concerned
because these people are profiting from the use of a common good that belongs to Maori.
Previous governments have rejected such opportunistic claims by Maori leaders. But in an astonishing act of hypocrisy, the
National Party MP, who is advancing the current attempt by Maori to control fresh water, led the campaign against their
attempt to control the foreshore and seabed.

While Nick Smith is now turning a blind eye to New Zealanders concerns over Maori control of water, in 2003 he stood up
for the public. During a protest march down the main street of his Nelson electorate, he said;

Ordinary New Zealanders, who have shown a huge degree of tolerance to treaty claims and spending on Maori
issues, have had enough.

Dr Smith claimed that while senior Labour Government ministers were negotiating with Maori over the ownership of the
foreshore and seabed to find a win-win solution, the answer was very simple:

The Government should pass legislation confirming the Crown as owner on behalf of all New Zealanders. Anyone
who wants to divide up the shoreline for one exclusive group of citizenship must be stopped.

In 2004, the National Party published a newspaper advertisement opposing the Governments bill to give Maori control of
the foreshore and seabed, calling on the public to send in submissions.

Their ad criticised the Government for giving Maori special rights:

Labours basic message to Kiwis is: if youre not Maori, then no matter how long you live here, you can never love
this land as deeply or care for it as responsibly as Maori. Provisions like these will disempower your family
forever
 National opposed Labours plan to give Maori the power of veto over resource consent applications:

You know what that means. You want to build a boat ramp. But the local iwi says Not so fast. Your ramp will have
a significant adverse effect on our customary rights. You then have two choices. A court case (bound to be long
and expensive). Or a bribe (merely expensive). You pay the koha. Nothings changed. New name, same old
scam.

The ad opposed Maori being given joint management rights, saying the new law would give Maori strengthened
ability to participate in decision-making processes. Strengthened ability? That means only one thing. Joint
management.

They complained that Maori claims to the foreshore and seabed would be hard to oppose:

The Government has created a situation where these orders will be rubber-stamped by the Maori Land Court a
judicial jack-up. Say an iwi applies for an order. You can bet no-one will object. Why? Because they wont even
know about it No hearing. No debate. No comeback.

National warned that under Labours new bill, The koha racket will continue. Part-Maori descendents of
signatories to the Treaty of Waitangi will still be able to hold up any development until their terms are met.
Theres only one word for that. Extortion.

And they claimed the new law was divisive: This legislation will divide our country, not bring it together. This is not
the way to build a better future for all of us. National says the foreshore and seabed is Kiwi property. Not iwi
property.

Nationals present position, as outlined in Dr Smiths consultation document on fresh water reform, reeks of double
standards.

Maori tribes will be given joint management rights and the power of veto over councils the very things National objected to
in Labours foreshore and seabed legislation.

Their plan to pass the responsibility for rubber stamping iwi claims to fresh water onto local authorities, will make such
deals hard to oppose again something National complained about in their fish hook ad.
And with multiple tribal groups involved in the control of freshwater in any catchment, iwi consultation and the whole koha
racket will skyrocket.

Comment: The 'racial divide' call is made often. The truth is however that the corruprtion is equally represented on
both sides. Whether referencing political parties, Iwi, Maori, Pakeha - there are those on both "sides" who are more
than happy to screw over their "own people" in the interests of themselves and / or their globalist handlers.

Back in 2003, with local authorities spending $3.4 million a year consulting with iwi, and the Corrections Department alone
spending $2.2 million consulting iwi over three new prisons, National spoke out strongly against the rising cost of iwi
consultation.

Nick Smith also objected to the inclusion of Maori spiritualism in the RMA:

It is political correctness gone mad when key decisions on infrastructure are made on the basis that it will
adversely affect Maori spiritual beliefs and self-esteem. This decision is an invitation for backhanders

He said;

There can be no certainty of property rights when the fantasy world of Hollywood starts being given credibility by
our courts. This example follows previous rulings by the Environment Court about diverted waters adversely
affecting Maori self esteem, and motorways and prisons being diverted or held up over taniwha. It shows just how
politically correct and stupid the Resource Management Act has become and highlights the desperate need for
reform.
He made a promise:

National is committed to a thorough cleanup of the Resource Management Act to remove any references to the
spiritual world. This sort of hocus pocus has no place in the courtroom.

After eight years in government, not only has the hocus pocus not been cleaned up, but Dr Smith is about to make it a
whole lot worse. Through sweeping co-governance rights and the power of veto over democratically elected local
authorities, the radical Iwi Participation Agreements proposed for the RMA will condemn councils into endless consultation
with multiple tribal groups.

The result will be more and more abandoned projects as property owners decide its not worth the hassle.

Bob Jones explained what it was like consulting with iwi in 2014, when he wanted to restore a window in a commercial
building in central Auckland that had been removed by a tenant.

Since the building was within 50 metres of one of thousands of new designated Maori heritage sites introduced by the
Auckland Councils Maori Statutory Board, under the Draft Unitary Plan, it needed a resource consent. To gain that consent,
Sir Bob had to seek the approval of 13 iwi, ranging from Taranaki to Whangarei. Letters were duly written.

Sir Bob explains:

Five replied stating they had no concerns while others said they were considering the matter, presumably calling
huis to weigh up this window crisis. One respondent bearing that fine old Maori name of Jeff Lee, representing
something called Ngai Tai Ki Tamaki, contacted the planner

After advising the planners verbally that no Cultural Impact Assessment Report was required for the window, he
nevertheless asked them to consider it brace yourselves given his ancestors, centuries ago, gathered in the
vicinity. Lee then wrote, outlining his terms for assessing the windows cultural impact which, he said, would take
him a total of six to eight hours. For this he sought $90 per hour plus GST and travel expenses of 0.77c per km.

Unsurprisingly, Mr Lee was told to get stuffed.

Treaty Settlement Acts are now littered with requirements to involve iwi in decision-making. Anyone wanting resource
consents in the vast number of areas where statutory acknowledgements exist must consult all iwi individually with each
no doubt charging substantial fees for their pro-forma cultural assessments.

In fact, stories of RMA rorts are everywhere and National knows it has become legalised corruption. But rather than taking
a principled approach and removing race-based requirements from the law to create a much-needed level playing field
they clearly intend making the problem a whole lot worse.

Further, instead of fulfilling his promise to take spiritualism out of the RMA, Nick Smith embedded it, through Te Mana o te
Wai, in the 2014 National Policy Statement on Fresh Water.

Dr Smith should know only too well how inappropriate it is to include cultural spiritualism in water quality controls but such
is his hypocrisy that he intends strengthening the concept in the forthcoming reforms:

When Te Mana o te Wai is given effect, the water body will sustain the full range of environmental, social, cultural
and economic values held by iwi and the community.

In his fresh water consultation document, Dr Smith proposes to require regional councils, when setting freshwater
objectives, to identify the values of the iwi and hapu that have associations with those freshwater bodies.

Hand-in-hand with recognition of their association with water bodies, there needs to be ways for iwi and hapu to participate
in decision-making about those water bodies. This decision making occurs through development of regional policy
statements, regional plans, catchment plans, and consenting.

His approach will result in Maori tribes controlling waterways throughout New Zealand, clipping the ticket whenever anyone
applies for consents and, if a price is put on water, pocketing a royalty every time a tap is turned on.

The Northland Regional Council has spoken out against plans to give Maori authority over freshwater bylaws, consents and
other statutory responsibilities. They are adamant that decision-making is the job of elected councillors.

Chairman Bill Shepherd also explained how the governments use of the word iwi in consultation documents was
problematic for Northland, where the landowners were primarily hapu and there were 190 of them.
Imagine having to negotiate with 190 tribal groups every time you want to make a decision! Nationals approach highlights
the absolute hypocrisy of the claims by Minister Nick Smith, that their RMA reforms will bring consistency into local
government.

This weeks NZCPR Guest Commentator, former Judge and law lecturer Anthony Willy, has been examining the powerful
forces behind the fresh water reforms:

""Nick Smith the Minister responsible for the governments fresh water policy said at a recent public meeting in
Auckland called to discuss the matter, There would be an obligation on local councils to consult with iwi about the
use of water in which they might have a special interest, but there was to be no suggestion of co-governance

Anthony refutes these claims, quoting from a memorandum filed by the governments lawyers in the Waitangi
Tribunal Registry should there be a need for a resumed hearing.

He concludes, This puts it beyond doubt that the government is open to discussing both co governance with the
Iwi Leaders Group and the allocation of fresh water to persons of Maori blood on a race basis.

The document confirms that the Crown worked closely with Iwi Leaders throughout 2015, developing fresh water policy
proposals to be included in the public consultation process. It states their priority for 2016 will be Economic Development.

They intend developing a range of mechanisms to enable iwi/hapu to access fresh water in order to realise and
express their economic interests.

He concludes, This puts it beyond doubt that the government is open to discussing both co governance with the
Iwi Leaders Group and the allocation of fresh water to persons of Maori blood on a race basis.

What this means, is that once National gives iwi control of fresh water, they intend to develop mechanisms to generate
economic returns. As sure as night follows day, there will be an iwi levy on water.

If you havent put in a submission opposing all race-based proposals for fresh water reform, then please do so as numbers
really matter on issues like this. A simple email to watersubmissions@mfe.govt.nz stating your position is all that is needed.
Click on the image above to open a PDF version in a new wondow

And why not send it on to all National MPs (their addresses are here), as they are the ones who are responsible for these
dreadful proposals, and they really need to hear what the public thinks.

If you believe that other New Zealanders should be informed about whats going on, so they too can send in submissions
and contact MPs, then please support our ad here. Its not too late. The ads will start running this weekend and if we have
enough support, next weekend as well.

For Sale: 40 Billion Litres Of Canterbury's Purest Water

April 7 2016 | From: Stuff

A council in the drought-prone Canterbury plains is selling the right to extract 40 billion litres of
pure, artesian water to a bottled water supplier.

The Ashburton District Council is selling a section in its business estate, known as Lot 9, for an undisclosed sum.
It comes with a valuable resource consent that allows abstraction of water from aquifers beneath the town.

The council has refused to publicise information about the deal, which is understood to be with an overseas company. It has
outraged some residents, who say water is desperately needed locally.

Related: Hawke's Bay company's first shipment of drinking water

The area's artesian water is increasingly popular in overseas markets such as China, with its New Zealand origin often
featuring in branding and marketing.

The consent allows the holder to take 45 litres of water a second from local aquifers, totalling more than 1.4 billion litres
a year. It expires in 2046, meaning the buyer will gain access to more than 40 billion litres of Ashburton's pure water.
It was approved in 2011 by Environment Canterbury and includes a recharge consent, meaning all water taken must be
replaced from other sources.

In a statement, the council confirmed it was in the process of selling the site;

"The parcel of land includes an existing consent for water abstraction from local aquifers," it said.

"The prospective buyer is interested in setting up a water-bottling plant."

Council chief executive Andrew Dalziel would not answer questions about the sale, citing commercial sensitivity. Standing
orders prevented councillors from discussing the sale, which is expected to be finalised in June.

It is understood there has been no consultation with ratepayers or other interested parties, such as iwi, about the deal.

Sir Mark Solomon, chairman of Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu, said it was "disappointing" the iwi had not been informed.

"Twenty years ago the Ashburton region had reasonably good water quality, but it is now an over-allocated
catchment and faces some of the most pressing water quality challenges in our takiwa [tribal region]," he said.

"It seems incredible that the council wouldn't think more broadly about the future of its existing consents."

A premises in the Ashburton Business Estate, where the Ashburton District Council is in the process of allowing a bottled water company to extract
40 billion litres of water.

Ashburton resident Jen Branje is leading community opposition, and said the lack of transparency raised alarm bells.
 "We live in a drought-prone area - farmers aren't given consent to bore for water for their crop-growing, so why on
Earth are we selling it off-shore?"

The Ashburton groundwater zone is over-allocated, meaning water allocated to consent holders exceeds the amount
available for use. New groundwater consents are difficult to acquire, making existing consents more valuable.

Branje said a lack of consultation did not give locals faith the sale was in their best interest.

"This whole thing has gone on behind the ratepayers' backs. No-one has any clue about it whatsoever.

It's a blimmin' lot of water, and it shouldn't be allowed to go off-shore. If anything, that water should be sustaining
our own economic backbone."

Ashburton often has issues supplying water during the summer. In some areas, water restrictions banned residents from
using hoses to water their gardens.

When applying for the consent, the council came to an arrangement with meat processor Silver Fern Farms, allowing it to
deepen its bore if Lot 9's water abstraction caused groundwater levels to reduce.

Auckland Councils $1.2 Billion IT Shambles

March 4 2016 | From: NationalBusinessReview

Reports have filtered through about the $1.2 billion blowout by Auckland Council on IT since the
supercity was formed in 2010.
This level of overspend is phenomenal and it is unclear whether the council has anything to show for it.

What is clear is the council has failed in its governance responsibilities to Aucklanders and ratepayers.

Last year, the auditor-general raised some serious concerns around the project NewCore which has received attention
for its $100m overspend, saying the project carries an almost certain risk with a major impact.

At the time the council responded by saying all was under control citing the following reasons: this includes quarterly
reporting to the finance and performance committee, project steering group meetings held each fortnight in line with best
business practice, and independent ongoing quality assurance reporting from EY to identify issues.

So I took a look at the reporting mentioned, and while shocked, wasnt surprised at what I found.

A review of the finance and performance committee meeting agendas and minutes show just how badly our leaders have
failed us in governance.

In 2015, the same information on the IT transformation programme was regurgitated four times when updating this
committee (in February, May, September and December). A quick review of the minutes of each of those meetings shows
no overview of any discussions, except in September when the public were excluded for reasons of commercial
confidentiality.

There is no mention of how investment is turning up in actual operational savings, except broad statements around targeting
savings. Any type of rigorous risk reporting framework is completely absent.

Additionally, I find it astounding there was no mention of the vast gaps in governance highlighted by the auditor-general in
2015. This is a complete failure not just by council staff accountable but the governors of Auckland.

Having worked in the IT and communications sector in senior management and governance positions during my 20-years in
business, I have never seen such gross negligence at all levels of project management and people must be held
accountable for this, including the cost blowout and lack of governance oversight.
For $1.2 billion, you would not only have transformed your IT systems and processes, migrated your whole staff to modern-
day computing solutions, such as cloud-based communications, and have built new network infrastructure, such as a mobile
network. The fact the council is attempting to combine systems is an inaccurate justification for this level of investment.

We need strong leadership focused on delivering results for Auckland. Theres quite a few steps that need to be taken in
order to address this level of incompetence.

Here is where I would start:

Demand the appropriate level of reporting from those accountable in the council to governance. This includes
updates on benefits realised, milestones and gating which decides whether the project is moved to the next phase,
rigorous risk assessment and monitoring, and a thorough update on scope changes driving costs and benefits, as
a start;

If governance reporting is not addressed satisfactorily in a short time frame (i.e. 3-6 months), then replace those
individuals to get the level of accountability that is a fundamental tenet of large capital investments like this;

Ensure the risks highlighted by the auditor-general are taken onboard by council staff accountable for this
programme and risk mitigation strategies are embedded not just in the programme but governance reporting;

Ensure the benefits, outcomes, project scope, business and technical requirements were aligned and reported on
regularly at both an operational and governance level;

Not take at face value that management is doing this. Its clear from the significant gaps in what the council says
it is doing and what is turning up at the committee meetings that the most prudent assessment would be to assume
the appropriate levels of reporting and risk management are just not in place; and

Ensure management is running an incredibly strict capital prioritisation process around scope changes required.

This blowout is completely unjustifiable, especially when residents in Riverhead and Maraetai cant even afford decent
footpaths in their communities.
The irony of reading the committee meetings is the talk about deferring millions of dollars of desperately needed investment
that has been put on hold while the IT funding goes unmonitored and ungoverned.

I will provide strong leadership, fresh ideas, and deliver real results for Aucklanders. I have the governance and operational
experience to ensure Auckland has the right level of reporting and questions in place to avoid debacles likes this.

River Stance: Water Pollution In New Zealand

February 26 2016 | From: Listener

Ecologist Mike Joys unsanitised views of the sorry state of our fresh waterways make him a target
of vitriol. But hes not about to change his tune.
The cool water flowing around Mike Joys legs looks clear and clean. If it wasnt for a stiff southerly blasting over
the Canterbury Plains and across the bed of the Selwyn River, it might even look good enough for a quick dip.

Related: Horowhenua Horowhenua pensioner bashed in late night attack after highlighting pollution of waterways to
Council - not the first such incident

But looks deceive. If the pollutants that leach through our intensively farmed soils and into lowland rivers such as the Selwyn
made the water run red, wed quickly grasp the scale of the problem, says Joy. Instead, the water at Coes Ford a spot
where he spent blissful days as a Christchurch schoolboy in the 1960s and 70s, and where he now stands as one of New
Zealands loudest environmental whistleblowers is polluted by invisible toxins.

Its high in nitrogen, which fuels the growth of slime and algae, and there are regular spikes of E coli, meaning the swimming
water quality is ranked as poor.
Trout used to run in their tens of thousands up this stretch of the river. Christchurch anglers could knock off after a days
work and half an hour later be casting their lines into a fishery that rivalled the fabled Turangi. But these days Fish & Game
rangers count just dozens of trout.

In the middle of the river bed theres a tell-tale black streak. Its Phormidium, says Joy. The naturally occurring algae
thrives in rivers that have been altered by vegetation clearance and enriched by excess nutrients. It can quickly grow into a
toxic mat across an entire river bed.

Related: A Former Councillor Speaks Out: Toe the line and deny any pollution by the HDC was the clear message
given by Mayor

Within a fortnight of the Listener photographing Joy here, Environment Canterbury had issued a fresh alert warning people to
stay away from the site, reporting significant quantities of the potentially toxic algae, which can cause rashes, nausea,
cramps, tingling and numbness around the mouth and fingertips.

And which can kill. There are instances in New Zealand of dogs dying after drinking contaminated river water and licking
algae-covered rocks. It seems it will only be a matter of time before a child dies after ingesting some of this, Joy predicts.
Typical Joy focusing on the negatives, looking past the postcard images of crystalline alpine rivers to shout about the ailing
state of streams that flow through farmland, publicly undermining our clean green image.

He became a household name three years ago after he was quoted in the New York Times on the eve of the release ofThe
Hobbit saying the pristine environment portrayed in the film was at odds with this countrys poor showing against many
international benchmarks.

Previously, an article hed written saying that New Zealand was delusional about its environmental performance was used
to embarrass Prime Minister John Key in a high-profile interview with the BBCs Stephen Sackur.

After the New York Times story, political lobbyist Mark Unsworth emailed Joy, accusing the Massey University ecologist of
economic sabotage and describing him and his cohorts as the foot and mouth disease of the tourism industry.

Most ordinary people in NZ would happily have you lot locked up, he wrote.

Political activist Cameron Slater blogged that Joy ought to be taken out and shot at dawn for his treachery.

[Comment: Oh how the truth hurts. And shoot the messenger?]

The New Zealand Herald accused Joy of overstatement, and scolded that his damaging analysis had reached an
international audience. When challenged by Sackur, Key shrugged off Joys critique as merely a view that could be easily
countered by other scientists, and insisted that for the most part its possible to jump into any New Zealand river for a
swim.

Looking back on the backlash, Joy says he was hurt but undeterred. For every one Unsworth, there are 20 people who -
randomly email me or ring me and thank me for what Im doing.
A $1.27m clean-up to reverse environmental damage in Levins Lake Horowhenua began in 2014. The Listener had labelled it a lake of shame in
2013 when it was ranked 107th out of 114 lakes for water quality. Photo/Hagen Hopkins

The Way He Sees It

Hes carried on putting his head above the parapet, increasingly abandoning the language of academic restraint to tell the
story of what he sees as an environmental crisis. In the past two years alone he has delivered 102 public talks to
environmental, farming, community and school groups. And this month, he has published the story in a long essay, Polluted
Inheritance.

Referencing monitoring reports and studies that normally lie beyond the public gaze in scholarly journals and the archives of
regional councils, Niwa and other crown research institutes (CRIs), the essay is effectively a Mike Joy state of the
environment report one that paints a far bleaker picture than the official version published a month ago by the Ministry for
the Environment.

Of 112 monitored lakes, a 2010 Niwa study found 44% are eutrophic so burdened by excess agricultural nutrients that they
have become murky, smelly and inhospitable to many fish, reports Joy. Almost all (90%) our lowland wetlands the kidneys
of our waterways have been destroyed.
Three-quarters of our native freshwater fish are threatened with extinction (up from 20% in the early 1990s), yet only one
the grayling, which has been extinct for decades has legal protection.

Digging through the data on more than 300 monitored river sites, he reports that more than two-thirds of those surrounded by
farmland exceed Australasian guidelines for nitrogen levels in water, beyond which aquatic life starts to be affected.

Thats up from 40% in 1990. Phosphorous the other key agricultural pollutant, carried into rivers by soil erosion exceeds
guidelines in most intensively farmed areas (although levels have been slowly falling since the late 1990s).

And then there are the tiny creatures whose presence signals the well-being of rivers invertebrates such as mayflies and
stoneflies, which are measured by the Macroinvertebrate Community Index (MCI).
Niwa has mapped MCI scores around the country, painting in red where low insect life denotes serious pollution: the map
burns bright red throughout the intensively farmed regions of Canterbury, Southland, Auckland, Waikato and Taranaki.

Weve squandered our environmental riches, argues Joy, and ended up with a pattern of degradation that places an
inequitable burden on the poorest communities.

Yes, the pristine rivers and lakes still exist, but they are largely in national parks where people with time and money to drive
or fly long distances can enjoy them, whereas the worst effects of intensive agriculture are concentrated in lowland rivers and
estuaries close to where people live places which, in the past, have been available to those with limited income for food
gathering and cheap recreation.
Mike Joy inspects Phormidium on the gravel bed of the lower Selwyn River, in Canterbury. The felt-like algae can quickly take over a river bed, and
can be toxic to animals and humans. Photo/Martin Hunter

Dairy Boom

How has it come to this? Farmers, claims Joy, have been incentivised to pollute. The dairy-cow population has doubled
since 1992 without there being regulation controlling the volume of nutrients and pathogens that flow from their free-range
excrement through the soils and into waterways.

This intensification has been enabled by new inputs such as palm-kernel expeller (PKE) and a 420% increase in nitrogen
fertiliser use since 1990, leading to stocking rates than wouldnt otherwise be possible. The ability of catchments to absorb
the effects has simply been overwhelmed.
Twenty-five years after the dairy boom began, the Government has belatedly written environmental bottom line standards
for freshwater into the rule book. But in Joys view (one shared by many others in the freshwater field), the proposed limits
are so weak they would allow for further pollution, and crucial measures of aquatic health, such as the MCI index, have been
left out altogether.

The underlying problem, he says, is that those who pollute dont pay to clean up the damage. Instead, the cost falls on the
public in the form of a degraded environment and lost opportunities.

In his most controversial offering yet, earlier this year he co-authored a paper (with masters student Kyleisha Foote and
Massey University colleague Russell Death) that extrapolated from a raft of published research on the cost of environmental
clean-ups to conclude that if the pollution caused by the dairy industry was properly accounted for it would exceed the
industrys total economic value.

The farming sector was scandalised, and academics including Waikato Universitys Jacqueline Rowarth and Frank
Scrimgeour criticised Joy and his colleagues for naivety and sloppiness.
It's not our fault bro, all we did was turn up

But if it confirmed Joys reputation as a stirrer and a troublemaker for the dairy industry, it seems not to have affected his
standing with New Zealands biggest farmer, Landcorp. Suddenly, Joy just three years ago condemned as a traitor and
saboteur has found himself inside the room with the leaders of the most influential agri-business in the country. How did
that happen?

Landcorp chief executive Steven Carden says the strategy of the state-owned enterprise is to achieve both an economic
return and environmental sustainability. Joy is one of six paid members of an environmental reference group to advise it on
how to achieve that. We thought we could take the safe path of finding experts who would tell us what we wanted to hear, or
we could challenge ourselves and bring in people who are outspoken on the environmental impacts of dairying.

Other group members include veteran environmentalist Guy Salmon, innovative farm consultant Alison Dewes and maverick
water campaigner and businessman Angus Robson. Carden says debate in the first couple of meetings was ferocious, but
the search now is for farming solutions that will work. We will listen to them Its not a green stamp.

On The Inside

Inside the room being listened to by influential people is a surprising place to be for a late-starting scientist who still sees
himself as an outsider. Joys academic career didnt begin until he was 33. He ditched school at 17, by which time his
policeman fathers job had taken the family from Christchurch to Wellington. He was academically average and a bit of a
bogan. I was a hoon at school, always off chasing girls at lunchtime.
 His first job was in a bottle recycling factory in Petone. It
was rough as guts. I went from school to a full-time job
there employing people coming out of jail, overstayers
I became the foreman at 17, running these guys driving
trucks and forklifts.

He moved to Palmerston North in pursuit of a girlfriend and

got a job on a 65-cow dairy farm, which he ended up
managing. I loved it loved the cows and the job.

He moved on through a succession of jobs labouring,

truck driving, building. He did a stint driving taxis all night
and spending his days doing up a 100-year-old yacht.

He bought an empty section up 74 council steps in the

Wellington suburb of Wadestown and built a kitset house on
it, which is still there.

He and his partner, Allie Hewitt, sailed across the Pacific to

Tonga, and later found work on a remote outback farm in
Australia.

The place was owned by two estranged brothers who lived

at opposite corners of the 40,000ha property, and it hadnt
seen rain for four years.

We killed 6000 ewes, recalls Joy. The farmers had $2 a

head in their wool fund to get rid of them. The market was
shot. At night, he and Hewitt would go spotlighting for
kangaroos, legally, to sell for dog tucker, which brought in
enough cash for the farm to pay their wages.

When they returned to New Zealand in 1993, jobs were

scarce, and both decided to enrol at Massey. By the third
year Joy was enrolled in Deaths freshwater ecology
lectures, and he became immersed in the field of
biomonitoring using animals as a measure of ecological
health.
Dogs are known to have died after contact with the algae on the Hutt
River and the Ashley in North Canterbury

That interest became the basis for a PhD using artificial intelligence to develop predictive models of fish populations, drawing
on a raft of environmental variables including climate and geology.

The models describe, with a high level of accuracy, the freshwater fish communities that ought to be present in any given
spot, which can then be used as the benchmark from which to identify the reasons the actual population may be depleted.
The work was published internationally and, according to Death, was globally ground breaking.

Up to this point, Joy had no particular concerns about farming or the effect of land use on water.

I was a fan of farming. Id been a farmer. But that started to change.

It was so frustrating, day after day, going to streams, setting up kit and finding the same old suspects the three
species that can handle any conditions instead of the 20 species that ought to have been there. At hundreds of
sites, all you ever found were upland bullies and short-finned eels and a few trout.

He started getting angry at the degradation he was seeing. Then he got angry about the failure of regulators to act on it.

Headline-Grabber
Fifteen years on, that anger has driven Joy onto the podium and into the media with a frequency and stridency that have
attracted both respect and resentment from his peers.

University of Otago ecologist Marc Schallenberg, president of the Freshwater Sciences Society, says for the most part Joy is
simply reporting on publicly available data, and the message hes putting out there is right.

Schallenberg says in his own field work on lakes and estuaries he sees the same decline in water quality that Joy describes,
and the cause:

Couldnt really be anything else [other than agriculture], unless there is a climate-change signal that none of us
has picked up yet But when you see whats going on the land and the sheer amount of waste thats put onto the
land its not rocket science.

But he says most scientists have no appetite for the advocacy role Joy has assumed.

Scientists often are dispassionate people because part of our training is really just to look at the data and not get
passionately involved in any particular outcome or finding

[Joy] has taken a lot of flak and thats one of the reasons some of us would be reticent. But I appreciate what he
does, and more than anyone he has brought these issues into the public perception.
Given whats at stake for New Zealands agricultural economy, Schallenberg says theres a tendency among vested interests
to spin the environmental data;

So you need people to come out and call a spade a spade and engage with the misinformation thats out there.
Im quite grateful that Mike is that person for us.

Waikato University ecologist Kevin Collier vouches for Joys scientific credentials and says the message he communicates
resonates with him.

But people make contributions in different ways. Some are more comfortable doing the science through more
conventional means and some are more comfortable being a bit more outspoken. Certainly Mike has taken a lot of
hits where other people would have given up because it was too hard.

Others are affronted by Joys methods. He has come out swinging against scientists from Niwa (the agency whose
monitoring data he widely cites), accusing them, in the midst of the stoush over the proposed Ruataniwha irrigation scheme
in Hawkes Bay, of providing advice on nutrient limits in the Tukituki River that was biased in favour of the client:

If you were working for Niwa and all your work came from these councils or the Ministry for the Environment
Youve got to feed the kids and pay the mortgage. Are you going to say its a bad idea?

Joy had breached a cardinal rule of scientific decorum dont slag off your peers in public. The Hawkes Bay Regional
Council strongly rejected his comments, and Niwa rejects the allegations as well. Ill-feeling between Joy and the CRI
remains. When the Listener approached John Quinn, Niwas chief scientist (freshwater and estuaries) for comment on Joy,
he politely refused.

The behaviour we would like to see is where we talk about each others work in the context of [conferences and
personal communications], not in the media

Having public spats is not helpful for the credibility of science.

Waikato Universitys Professor David Hamilton, immediate past president of the Freshwater Sciences Society, damns Joy
with faint praise, calling his academic work steady. Hes productive but he is not at the top of his field. If he was, hed be a
full professor. Joy, he says, has raised the profile of water issues, but upset peers by casting aspersions on their
independence and strayed beyond his core discipline by commenting on issues such as environmental economics and soil
contamination.

The Cost Of Speaking Out

Death says his former student and long-time Massey University colleague has taken up the mantle of environmental
advocate at considerable expense to his academic career. Joy is a senior lecturer and was declined for promotion to
associate professor recently.

The university promotion system works on rewards for publication in scholarly journals, not for talking to community meetings
or writing op-eds.

Traditional science is meant to be about helping the wider public and communicating, but in reality there
are so many barriers to doing that, that you have to make a conscious decision to do it.

Meaning?

New Zealand scientists tend to want to be like most Kiwis and not antagonise people, but if you go to conferences
in the US its the complete opposite. They get up and criticise you not personally but the science. And thats
what science is meant to be. But New Zealand scientists tend not to want to do that.

They tend to want to stay among the crowd and not speak out and upset anybody

The other unfortunate thing is funding. Most of the funding in New Zealand, in contrast to other countries, is very
much tied to the Government directly or indirectly, and for whatever reason the Government is quite tightly linked
with many of the industry lobby groups, particularly dairy, and dairy is certainly not very keen on us outlining that
water quality in New Zealand is degrading as a result of what it is doing.
Joys boss, Massey University vice-chancellor Steve Maharey, has backed the scientist through the various controversies,
provided he can support his claims. (Maharey says he can.)

Steve Maharey

But for Joy, there is more at stake than tenure and job security.

Theres a fight to be had with the Government over what he sees as bogus bottom-line standards for freshwater; theres a
battle to be won in boardrooms such as Landcorps to bring the true cost of environmental degradation to account; theres a
public to be enlightened.

Ive decided that this problem is more important to me than my career. This job is the longest job Ive had in my
life. Im sure Ill get by if I lose this job. I can go sailing or truck driving.

It means far more to me to put guys like [Environment Minister] Nick Smith in the spotlight than it does to
keep paying the mortgage.

Maybe if Id been a career academic I wouldnt be like that Im looking for my next opportunity to tell New
Zealand about this.

The academic has become an activist, he says, not because I chose to be, but because I have to be.

Mike Joy was awarded the Reo mo te Awa award at the Morgan Foundation NZ River Awards on November 26, which
Rebecca Macfie helped judge.

Radio Station George FM Warns Staff About Max Key

February 12 2016 | From: NZHerald

Radio DJs at George FM have been warned they will be taken off air if they say anything negative
about the station's newest host, Max Key [son of Prime Minister John Key].
Key's new role at the station was unveiled last week, hosting a one-hour show on Tuesday nights. He will unveil his
debut single Forget You on his first show next week.

Comment: Obviously Max Key becoming a night time host for a show on George FM has stirred up some
controversy. I know I sent them an email saying what a stupid decision it was and that I would never listen again to
heir station as long as he was on it. It seems their management (Media Works owned by Rupert Murdoch) have
instructed all their staff to stay mum about this on air and on social media. What are you scared of George? The
truth?

An unverified email reportedly sent to all George FM staff warned staff that "all social media relating to the new night George
FM Night time residents must be positive.
 "We will not tolerate any negativity relating to any of our new roster," the message continued. "Anyone who cannot
adhere to this requirement will be taken off air instantly."

Mediaworks didn't respond to requests for comment about the statement.

When contacted by the Herald last week, Max Key said he "wasn't doing media" and didn't want to comment.
George FM founder Thane Kirby

But George FM DJ Aroha Harawira spoke out in support of Key, saying he should be judged on his musical ability and not
his father's politics.

"I haven't met Max Key yet myself, I've never seen him DJ, but I heard him on George FM last night and I thought
he played a pretty sweet set," Harawira wrote on her blog site.

"I value my friends' opinions and I'll give the guy a chance. I think you should too ... Say what you want about John
Key, but leave his kids out of it."

Max Key's first show on George FM is on February 16, where he'll unveil his new single, Forget You, rumoured to be about
his recent split from Amelia Finlayson.

In an interview on the station, Key said he'd been working on his material on his own, and he was "super excited" to release
it. Co-host Jay Bulletproof said he had heard the song, and it was an "absolute banger".

"I'm proud to say I'm releasing my first single Forget You. Previewing on my first show on George fm nights,
Tuesday the 16th at 10pm ... I can't wait to drop this," he wrote on Instagram.
Maori Elder Kingi Taurua Sends TPPA Partners, Queen A Formal Notice Of Veto Of
Trade Agreement
February 4 2016 | From: NZFoodSecurity

Kingi Taurua, a prominent Nga Puhi elder at Waitangis Te Tii Marae, has sent a formal notice of
veto of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement to the embassies and trade departments of its
proposed partner countries, and has requested that the Queen intervene on the issue.

Related: The Long Awaited TPPAFacts.co.nz: The Facts Minus The Spin
The document cites the Treaty of Waitangi and the 1835 Declaration of Independence of New Zealand, and states
that the New Zealand government does not have due authority to sign the TPPA without the agreement of Maori
elders, which [agreement] has not been given.

Related: What Is The Real Agenda Behind John Key's Drive To Change The New Zealand Flag: Due Authority - A
Very Silent Coup?

Mr Taurua claims that the TPPA would be void in respect of New Zealands involvement as a result, should it be signed.

NZ Food Security has obtained a copy of the document sent by Mr Taurua, which is titled Notice of Non-Assent to the
Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and Exercise of Constitutional Power of Veto in Respect Thereof.

The public release of the document comes just as the TPPA is due to be signed in Auckland, New Zealand on February 4 by
visiting politicians from countries around the Pacific.
Mr Taurua is currently meeting with other Maori elders at Te Tii Marae in preparation for a visit by John Key, prime minister
of New Zealand, and other government officials on Waitangi Day, February 6, after the scheduled signing.

He has previously stated that Mr Key would not be allowed onto the marae if the controversial trade agreement was signed,
although a trustee for the marae stated on February 2 that Mr Key would be allowed onto the land.

It is thought that the notice sent to the partner countries of the TPPA is being discussed at the marae in anticipation of the
visit, as the document asks the Queen to stand in opposition to the agreement with Mr Taurua and those other Rangatira o
Te Whakaminenga o Ng Hap o Nu Tireni referring to the other chiefs gathered at the marae that agree to my
position.
The document says that he requests and requires the Queen to intervene and act as Protector of New Zealands
sovereignty from attempts on the sovereignty of our Independent State by overseas corporate interests. At least one
other elder has already countersigned the document.

The language of the document echoes that of the Declaration of Independence, which was signed by Mr Tauruas ancestor,
Pareha of Ngati Rehia. He says that another ancestor of his, Te Kemara, was a signatory of the Maori version of the Treaty
of Waitangi 1840.

Last year the Waitangi Tribunal found that Maori did not cede sovereignty when they signed the Treaty of Waitangi, and it is
apparently this sovereignty by descent or tino rangatiratanga that Mr Taurua is claiming he is able to use to formally veto
the trade agreement.

The document closes by stating that Mr Taurua does not give [his] permission to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
being signed in Auckland by the visiting officials from overseas which position I take to the full extent of my right to regulate
trade in that district.

The Declaration of Independence, which was approved by the Queens predecessor King William IV and ratified by the
British government, states that Maori elders would gather at Waitangi each autumn in order to regulate trade.

'CYFS Need To Listen To Carers'

January 28 2016 | From: RadioNewZealand

A Porirua family took in a baby so neglected he showed no emotion. Now he's full of life. They also
took in a baby born at 25 weeks and turned her into a happy, healthy wee girl who's off to school
soon.

And because they've taken on the children permanently - giving both them and the children the security of knowing
they have a family for life - they lose all Child Youth and Family Service (CYFS) support and allowances and receive
just $19 a day per child from Work and Income.

They can't change the children's surnames, they can't take them out of the country without permission and, if their birth
parents want contact, they have to make it happen.

"So why would anyone sane do that?" carer Jude Pointon says.

"The only people who would do that are people who have had a background like mine [Jude was fostered and
adopted as a child], who have gained through having a background in fostering or adoption."
In his first annual report on CYFs, State of Care 2015, released today, Children's Commissioner Russell Wills found
systemic failures in the service and said it was doubtful children were better off in state care.

He strongly criticised CYF for what he calls a "dump and run" culture of neglect.

Read the full report here.

Jude and her husband have first-hand experience of that culture.

Before they became permanency carers, they fostered children and Jude tells of having siblings aged one and three in their
care for two months, who then had to go back to their parents for a few days because CYF didn't have its court documents
in order.

"I said 'what do I tell them? They need to know what's happening,' and they said 'tell them they're going for a ride
in the car'.

"So I had an absolute hissy fit ... and said 'that's not okay, the system is making me into a long line of adults who
have failed these children and we're creating this country's future criminals and they have been let down over and
over and over again'."

Jude told the social worker they would have the kids back when the situation was sorted, but, she says, because she had
spoken her mind the children were sent to another home.

So it was a three-year-old's fourth foster home and it was a one-year-old's second foster home.

And that happens over and over again," she says.

Jude's sister - a social worker and CYF emergency care foster parent - recently had two children arrive in the middle of the
night. They were with her for a few days but then weren't returned after school one day.
 "She was told 'they've gone to another placement' and she said 'well that's really not okay because they were told
they were coming here, they've had an unsettling time and suddenly they're not coming here, they're going
somewhere else they don't know, again and all their precious belongings that they've managed to take from their
home are here'."

Those belongings might just be a teddy bear or a book but to a child with nothing they are everything.

We have a serious national problem here in New Zealand with child abuse and satanic paedophile organisations. It is hideous to comprehend, but
the reality has to be faced - and those responsible, and even those that have been commiting these crimes for over 50 years - should know that they
will be held to account for their heinous actions.

Social workers shocked. Jude's sister arranged a meeting with about 20 Porirua social workers and she, Jude and another
foster parent told them what was wrong with the system.

"Some of them were actually shocked to hear from a carer's perspective how it feels to the carer and the
children," she says.

"It makes me annoyed because the foster carers and the permanency carers are the experts. Sure, the children
who have been who've been through the system are the experts but often they're too young to put across
coherently their point of view.

We know what's wrong with the system. We're happy to tell you. We're happy to tell the policymakers. I'm happy to
talk to the minister. Listen to us."

And that, simply, is Jude's message to the powers that be who want to fix the care system.
 "Listen to the foster carers and ... the permanency carers, because we are here every day dealing with it every
day, and we know what can be done to try and fix the situation and make it work for these vulnerable children.

It really infuriates me when I hear on all media people talking about CYFs looking after these children. CYFs don't
have some big warehouse somewhere with all these children slotted in it, it's actually families who are looking after
these children who are often damaged, going out of their way to try and help these children have as normal a life
as they can given the neglect they've had to start with.

It's like we're these invisible people."

The "Minister" Must Step Up

Former ward of the state Tracey said the State care system was broken beyond repair.

Tracey was removed from her family in the late 1970s when she was 11 because of abuse and said she lost track of how
many foster homes she lived in.

She told Checkpoint nothing has changed.

"They've lost track of over 1000 children - they don't know where they are, what's happened to them.

"How can you lose 1000 kids? The Minister of Social Welfare is their guardian, is their parent, so that person has
better step up and look after these kids."

Tracey said society would have to live with the consequences if children in care were not properly looked after.
Another former ward of the State, Tupua Urlich, said more support was needed for people when they left care.

Mr Urlich said although he felt like a prisoner when he was in care, he had no support when he left and developed alcohol
and drug problems. He also tried to take his own life.

People needed a home environment to fall back on well into their 20s.

"The average age of leaving home in New Zealand is 23. You have the luxury of being at home, parents helping
you out," he said.

"I know some people will hear this and think 'I didn't do that for my children' - sure but at least they knew they had
the option of going home, getting their washing done, getting given a meal or support, real important things."

Mr Urlich now works with child support group the Dingwall Trust.

Related:

Kids probably no better off in state care

CYF calls review after fatal dairy robbery

Minister affirms need for CYF overhaul

Dismay at lack of Maori on CYF review panel

A Constitutional Timebomb: Is New Zealands Government And Court System
Unlawful?
January 27 2016 | From: InvestigateMagazine

It could be the most fundamental New Zealand issue of the century: if a group of Australian
lawyers and researchers is correct, the Treaty of Waitangi ceased to be valid on January 10, 1920,
and the New Zealand Government does not, lawfully, exist. In an even bigger potential crisis nor
do the laws. As Ian Wishart reports, even New Zealand constitutional lawyers cant rule out the
possibility they may be right.

If it sounds like the Coalition Governments worst nightmare multiplied by a factor of ten, youd be right. Every
three years for more than a century, New Zealanders have gone to the polls to elect governments believing, for lack
of any reason not to believe, that this was how democracy worked. You elect a government, they make your life
hell, you vote them out again.

We were told, as a nation, that the Governments powers derived from our status as a constitutional monarchy. But now,
important new legal research is threatening to turn our perception of who we are, as a nation, on its head.

The establishment view of constitutional law is that New Zealand, lacking a written constitution, is a country where the
Government holds the ultimate power to make laws and regulations.

Just how entrenched that establishment view is, can be demonstrated in a current debate in New Zealand legal and judicial
circles about the powers of the Courts to rein in bad Government. Lord Cooke of the Privy Council, formerly New Zealands
Chief Appeal Court judge, has suggested the Courts do have some power to control the Government. He argues that if the
New Zealand Government re-introduced slavery, for example, that the Courts could strike it down.

Unfortunately for those who believe the judiciary is a check on Government power, Lord Cooke is a lone voice in New
Zealands legal community. Other judges and lawyers have indicated they have a constitutional duty to uphold legislation
passed by the Government, however damaging that law might be.
Related: Australia republic move: Leaders begin push

Even so, there is evidence from Australia that the mainstream legal and judicial view may be totally wrong not because the
Courts have special powers to ignore legislation, but because New Zealand and Australias governments are not lawfully
constituted.

Leading academics and judges in Australia are lending their support to research showing that both countries failed to
constitutionally validate their legal sovereignty when they became independent from Britain early this century.

If it sounds impossible that the laws of New Zealand and Australia are invalid, read on.

The Australian Government has based its current lawmaking powers on the Australian Constitution Act of 1900. That Act
was passed by the British Parliament while Australia was still a Dominion.
The important fact to remember is this: the Australian Constitution is a British law.

New Zealand was granted Dominion status in 1907. The title Dominion meant nothing significant, in British law and
legislation the term was synonymous with colony. It wasnt until January 10, 1920, however that Australia became a
sovereign nation in its own right when both Australia and New Zealand became foundation members of the League of
Nations the forerunner to the United Nations.

Membership of the League of Nations was restricted only to sovereign countries, and Article XX of the Covenant of the
League of Nations required the extinguishment of any colonial laws applying to a member state pre-Sovereignty.

That meant the Constitution Acts in New Zealand and Australia passed prior to independence became legally void under
international law. It was a condition of membership of the League of Nations and later the United Nations. But no new
constitutions were ever forthcoming in either country.

It continues to be a founding principle of the United Nations charter that the laws of one state cannot be used in another
unless ratified by a mutual treaty, so while the Australian Government has relied on a colonial act passed by the British in
1900, Britain has said otherwise, saying the Australian Constitution Act (UK) is null and void.

No Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, or an Act that looks to the Parliament of the United Kingdom for
its authority, is valid in Australia or its territories in accordance with the laws of the United Kingdom and the Charter
of the United Nations," wrote British officials responding to an information request.

For decades, Australians have obeyed federal laws seemingly passed with full legal authority on a raft of issues from law
and order to taxation. In all cases the Australian Government has claimed its powers from the 1900 Constitution Act.
That fundamental reliance took a knock however, when the United Nations International Law Commission ruled that
Australia could not rely on Section 61 of its Constitution to provide the power to enter into international treaties, because the
Constitution was a British law, not an Australian one. Instead, said the UN, Australia needed to look to its membership of the
League of Nations in 1920 as providing proof of its sovereignty.

The flag of the League of Nations, the failed NWO power grab prior to the United Nations.

An Australian group calling itself the Institute of Taxation Research has used that ruling and others to mount a serious
challenge to the constitutional authority of the Australian Government, saying that if the Constitution Act did not give the
Government power to sign international treaties because it was void, nor could it be used as the basis for domestic law.

In 1992, the Australian High Court held that:

The very concept of representative government and representative democracy signifies government by the people
through their representatives. Translated into constitutional terms, it denotes that the sovereign power which
resides in the people is exercised on their behalf by their representatives.

"In the case of the Australian Constitution, one obstacle to the acceptance of that view is that the Constitution owes
its legal force to its character as a statute of the Imperial Parliament enacted in the exercise of its legal
sovereignty; the Constitution was not a supreme law proceeding from the peoples inherent authority to constitute a
government."
In other words, the Australian Constitution does not establish the sovereignty of Australians or their government.

That ruling has been enough for the Institute of Taxation Research to hit the Australian Tax Office right between the eyes,
point blank. In what began as a Freedom of Information request to the ATO, the group pointed out:

For the Constitution to make the transition in status to that of a supreme law as mentioned by [Chief Justice]
Mason, mere opinion is not enough.

"Some legally recognisable instrument is required such as a Memorandum of Transfer from the UK Government,
or the record of a referendum in which the Australian people have given informed consent to the new
arrangements, or some other form of document recognisable under international law.

Since the ATO is claiming this has occurred would their counsel, who as a practising barrister must know of this
document and where it can be found, please produce it. In the presence of such documentary evidence I would be
quite happy to acknowledge the continued existence of the constitution and the laws deriving from it."

Despite the request, the ATO could not produce any documentation proving its lawful authority to levy tax on Australian
citizens.

Firstly it was asked to present us evidence of the documents setting up the ATO," explains ITR spokesman Ian
Henke from the organisations Melbourne headquarters. "Weve finally got a document that says the documents
do not exist signed by Erin Holland, Deputy Commissioner, on behalf of the Commissioner."
 That letter was sent on 27 October 1999.

"There are several issues here," says Henke. "We also searched the Commonwealth Gazette, and there was no
evidence at all of the ATO having been gazetted into existence. Finally in a court on the 20th of October, counsel
for the ATO finally admitted that it wasnt."

It is ITR, a group of lawyers, the occasional judge, business executives and researchers, that is making all the running on
the issue, and its an issue whose repercussions will be felt not just in Canberra, but Wellington and Ottawa too.

The point is, under international law once you get a change in sovereignty then there is a break in legal continuity.
The best example we can give you is Hong Kong. June 1997.

On 30 June there was still British police, British law, British taxes, British Army, British Queen and so on. On the
1st of July, one minute past midnight, all of those things still existed but they no longer had authority in Hong
Kong."

In the United States, the transference of sovereignty from the King of England to the American people was also marked by a
break in legal continuity the War of Independence followed by the establishment of the Constitution.

The Australian Government, allegedly realising its difficult constitutional position, passed the Australia Act in 1986 to repeal
a range of Imperial laws and shore up its status. New Zealand, in the same boat as Australia, did likewise with the Imperial
Laws Application Act of 1988. However ITR argues that both Acts are also void, as it is impossible under international law
and the UN Charter for one nation to pass legislation repealing the laws of another nation.

So could there really be a major constitutional crisis facing New Zealand? Or is it a technical "tilting at windmills" that will
lead nowhere?
New Zealands Constitution, like Australias, arose from Westminster in 1852 to provide authority for the colonial
administration to govern on Queen Victorias behalf. New Zealand was accorded "Dominion" status in 1907 and was
therefore still a British colony when the Land and Income Tax of 1908 was passed.

Like Australia, NZ signed the League of Nations Covenant in 1920 and, like Australia and Canada, was given legal
separation from Britain in 1931 with the Statute of Westminster. However, New Zealand chose not to ratify the 1931 Statute,
falsely believing that it could still function as a British colony despite having signed the League of Nations Covenant.

This was despite this speech from British Prime Minister Lloyd George at the Imperial Conference of 1921:

In recognition of their service and achievements during the war, the British Dominions have now been accepted
fully into the comity of the nations of the whole world. They are signatories to the Treaty of Versailles and all other
treaties of peace.

"They are members of the Assembly of the League of Nations, and their representatives have already attended
meetings of the League. In other words, they have achieved full national status and they now stand beside the
United Kingdom as equal partners in the dignities and responsibilities of the British Commonwealth.

"If there are any means by which that status can be rendered even more clear to their own communities and to the
world at large, we shall be glad to have them put forward."

The last paragraph should have sent clear signals to New Zealand that a change of constitutional status had taken place,
whether the New Zealand government liked it or not. Colonies could not sign treaties, only sovereigns could.
But it wasnt until after World War II, and the formation of the United Nations in 1947, that New Zealand formally severed its
colonial ties from Britain by ratifying the 1931 Statute of Westminster in a ceremony on November 25, 1947.

Britain then drafted a new Constitution for New Zealand, again passed in Westminster, authorising its colony to change any
provisions of the old 1852 colonial constitution.

Except, as the Australian Government has already learnt at great cost, no laws passed by Britain are valid in New Zealand
or Australia, nor have they been since 1920.

The British confirmation to Australia that:

"No Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, or an Act that looks to the Parliament of the United Kingdom for
its authority, is valid in Australia or its territories in accordance with the laws of the United Kingdom and the Charter
of the United Nations," could equally be applied to the 1947 New Zealand Constitution Act passed in Britain for use
in New Zealand.

What principle of international law lets the parliament of one sovereign country amend the law of another
sovereign country? It doesnt," argues Henke.

One to disagree, however, is University of Canterbury constitutional expert Philip Joseph, who says the gentle devolution of
power from Westminster to the three colonies of Canada, Australia and New Zealand was legally effective, even if not as
definitive as more traditional transfers of sovereignty.
Joseph believes international law, as set out in treaties signed by Australia and New Zealand, does not define how a nation
must deal with sovereignty issues at a domestic level.

Unlike all the other more newly emerged Commonwealth countries which have become sovereign, these three old
colonies acquired full powers of legal continuity through an ongoing gift of legal powers from Westminster to the
countries concerned."

This, of course, puts Joseph somewhat at odds with Henke and others who take a more fundamentalist view of
constitutional law, and even Joseph admits that his views shared by other mainstream constitutional lawyers in New
Zealand may be wrong at the end of the day.

The reason for that is that it places an enormous amount of faith in Britains legal ability to devolve power that way. Ninety-
nine percent of countries have achieved independence either by physical revolution or by declaration of independence. The
fact that only the three Dominions didnt, and are now facing major constitutional challenges, illustrates how the "gentle" way
may in fact have failed miserably to deliver lawful government.

"It never properly tells us when we exactly became an independent sovereign nation, and insofar as we trace our
powers through this continuity line back to Westminster yes, it is a problem," says Joseph.

The question of whether New Zealands Government has been passing laws since 1920 without pure Constitutional
authority to do so now lies open for legal debate and challenge, raising issues about the possible illegality of major policy
decisions like state-asset sales or Waitangi Treaty settlements, not to mention the tax laws.

The problem is even more volatile, as an unconstitutional parliamentary system would mean New Zealand has an
unconstitutional court system, bringing more headaches over whether any New Zealand court has jurisdiction to hear such a
case.
Some lawyers suggest the New Zealand Government had the power, during the transfer of sovereignty, to ratify by
legislation the earlier colonial constitution as remaining in force.

"If you wanted to argue the case," says Victoria University constitutional law expert Tony Angelo, "youd say that
on that date, 1920, when the cut off comes, that there has been an implicit affirmation or re-affirmation of certain
rules as the laws of this newly independent state."

Ian Henke doesnt buy that argument for a second.

He points out that in the recent Australian referendum on becoming a republic, the voters were asked to vote on a specific
question that would also have provided a break in legal continuity. And they were asked to ratify it because there was no
legal authority for the government to simply rubber-stamp it.

"We, the Australian people, commit ourselves to this constitution," was the referendum issue.

"By 61% to 39%, the people of Australia said no," says Henke. "so they cant just ratify it. The people said no."

But doesnt a government have the lawful authority, while it is becoming independent, to simply ignore its population and say
We know whats best because were the Government?
 "Of course not, because lawful authority in independence, comes from the people. Its the only place lawful
authority can come from."

Canterbury Universitys Philip Joseph agrees, saying the Government cannot claim a constitutional mandate simply because
it was voted in during an election.

"Thats too mechanistic in a sense. Youve actually got to go back to the fundamentals: what gives them the right to
be there to begin with, to actually put policies to the people?"

At a point during the interview, Philip Joseph acknowledges that what is being challenged is not whether an individual
statute is constitutional or not which has been ruled on many times in the past but a much bigger challenge: if the entire
system has not been lawfully constituted, no national court can possibly adjudicate on it.

"I take your point on what you are saying," says Joseph, "and at this point you do step beyond the safe
parameters of constitutional analysis. You are actually asking now: what are the bases of a people, of a state, of a
constitution."

The ramifications are huge. After all, you are asking lawyers who you may seek advice from to accept that their admission to
the Bar and expensive law degree may not be valid.

Mainstream constitutional thought in this country has always been that sovereignty did not come in a definable moment as it
has in other nations, but that the slow legal transition from Britain to New Zealand over a period of decades was lawful.

To ask lawyers, judges and politicians to accept that the core of their constitutional beliefs and their power base is wrong in
law is like asking the Titanic to stop on a dime. It is still a foreign concept in New Zealand legal thought that "the people"
hold sovereignty in anything other than name only.

The New Zealand and Australian people, when independence from Britain came in 1920, were never asked by their
Governments what laws they wished their new nations to operate under. Yet only the people can be sovereign, not the
Government.

"Every country in the world has a constitution which is its law," stresses Henke. "The key about your constitution,
and the key about our constitution, is that they are Acts of the British Westminster Parliament. They have never
been passed by the domestic parliaments down here. They are not the will of these peoples."

In essence, he argues, the moves by Australia, New Zealand and Canada to simply continue their existing government
systems without asking the citizens of the new nations for their views, were akin to building a skyscraper without getting a
building permit or planning permission.

Sovereignty, whether the governments realised it or not, had not passed from Britain to the former colonial governments, but
instead had passed directly into the hands of the people by virtue of the international covenants that all three countries
signed. Yet the governments acted as if they now had the power.

There are still lawyers who argue that international law has no domestic force. Again, the lawyers at ITR vehemently
disagree.

"Certainly, in the early part of the century, sovereign states rights were the only thing that was important. There
was no such thing as individual human rights," says Henke.

The reason for this was simple. Until World War I, the world was essentially a collection of imperial powers many of them
controlled by monarchs with absolute, divine right of kings, power. Sovereignty rested with the monarchs, and was exercised
via their governments.
But the first world war brought that state of affairs to an end, destroying the Austro-Hungarian empire, Prussian aspirations
and the Ottoman empire of Turkey that had once stretched from India to Spain.

From the wreckage of the war, new nations emerged where the people were suddenly free sovereigns in their own right.
The idea of absolute government sovereignty died in the trenches of the war, and this is the background that led to the
League of Nations being formed a group of free countries, each respecting the others sovereignty and their citizens rights
to shake off colonial shackles.

"Now probably the major development of the last half of the 20th century has been the swap from the emphasis on
sovereign states rights, to individual human rights. At this point in history, thats the dominant shift thats
occurred," opines Henke.

"In Europe and this is the problem that the people in Australasia have human rights, the 1966 Covenant, the
1947 Universal Declaration, and the European Covenant on Human Rights, are all by treaty part of European law
and are binding on all of the parties to the European Union, including England.

So human rights are now binding, under international law and international agreement, on the United Kingdom. Yet
we have governments in Australia who claim they operate on the basis of British law, namely our Constitutions, but
at the same time want to not be bound by the sections relating to human rights.

In fact, the remarkable thing is that two countries [Aust & NZ] whose governments speak so loudly about other
peoples abuse of human rights are very careful to avoid having human rights, of the international variety which are
universal, being applied to their citizens."

Henke says the bizarre situation has arisen where Australia has sworn to uphold the international declarations on human
rights, but where Australian courts have ruled the declarations do not apply domestically.

New Zealand too, is guilty of the same action by virtue of Government policy. According to Philip Joseph, the New Zealand
Government, like Australia, has not allowed our domestic law to automatically recognise international law even if NZ is a
signatory to it.
 "There is this dichotomy between the international legal order and our national legal order. It is still one of the
foundation principles of our constitutional law that an international treaty which we sign and ratify does not
become part of our domestic legal system unless it is specifically incorporated by an Act of Parliament."

Which, as Henke argues, makes it a lot easier for two constitutionally unlawful governments to continue in power, without
giving their subjects any rights of appeal under normal international legal channels.

"We actually had a judge say on the weekend, in discussion with a QC, that he didnt give a damn whether
individuals were hurt his job was to uphold the system the system as opposed to the law.

Now thats the second judge weve heard say that. Justice Haine of the Australian High Court said this back in
December of 1998. His job was to uphold the system. I was in court when he uttered it."

But ITR admits theres another problem: if, as the evidence now strongly suggests, the Australian Constitution is invalid and
the government has no powers to pass laws or enforce them, then the Australian courts also lack jurisdiction to hear such
arguments.

By failing to consult their citizens their new bosses about what kind of system of government they wanted from 1920
onwards, and simply assuming that the laws that existed the day before were still legal, Henkes researchers believe the
Governments acted illegally.

When America gained sovereign nation status, the new Constitution expressly provided that British common law precedent
would continue to form the basis of American law, except where it was inconsistent with the principles of the Constitution. In
this way, Americans ensured that they still had access to a code of laws.
But New Zealanders and Australians were not asked if they wanted British common law dating from the Magna Carta to
continue as their legal basis.

Related: Magna Carta: Our Founding Document Holds It's 800th Anniversary Today: June 15, 2015

And without that permission, it is constitutionally possible that the New Zealand courts have no power to draw legal
precedent from colonial times or earlier. In effect, there is a solid argument that virtually no laws exist in New Zealand, and
that even the 1688 Bill of Rights protecting MPs from being sued may have no effect, as ITR points out.

"The only constitutional authority for British legal precedent is the authority on which the British courts rest: the
legal authority of the British people as expressed through the British parliament. Now that lawful authority does not
apply in Australia. It doesnt apply in New Zealand.

"So all of the court decisions made in relation to that, unless we choose voluntarily and explicitly to take it into our
laws, is no more valid for us than laws used in France, the United States or China."

Again, looked at objectively, there is no constitutional reason that British colonial law should have any more force in New
Zealand, than Ottoman law from last century should have any force in modern Turkey or Egypt.

The only way this legal crisis could be dealt with is for the New Zealand Government to seek a mandate from the voters to
be granted temporary emergency powers whilst a new Constitution is drafted for public approval.
Unlike Hong Kong, freedom downunder was not marked by a break in legal continuity while one side relinquished power and
the other took command. Instead the former colonial governments did not understand the constitutional issues facing them.

As New Zealand constitutional law expert Tony Angelo, of Victoria University, points out, sovereignty up until that time had
normally been transferred only at the point of a gun, usually after agitation. In contrast, British colonial citizens were loyal
and not actively seeking independence.

"The British constitutional pattern, particularly for the old Commonwealth, was normally an evolutionary rather than
revolutionary process, so the idea that there is a specific date before which you are dependent and after which
you are independent, as I understand it, was not part of British constitutional thinking.

It is certainly a feature of some constitutional systems in continental Europe. In other words, if you wanted
independence from France, everything would stop and start on a given date."

As you saw earlier, Britain had told Australia and New Zealand on many occasions that they were now fully independent, but
it appears the colonials were not listening.

In Resolution 9 of the Imperial Conference of 1917, the colonies were told "there is a necessity to alter the constitutional
arrangements of the empire. The conference feels it must put on record that such rearrangements will be on the basis of
equality of nationhood."

Australias Prime Minister Hughes tried, in 1921, to draft a new Constitution for Australia to reflect the new nationhood. But
his plans were torpedoed by British-owned commercial interests lobbying politicians against it. Hughes was voted out soon
afterward, and the idea of a new Australian Constitution never arose until the Republican Referendum last year.

New Zealand politicians were even more backward, failing to realise they were legally independent for 27 years, and failing
to implement a Constitution right up to the present day.
Although the Lange government did pass the 1986 Constitution Act, it was an Act of Parliament not a peoples constitution.
It is also strongly arguable that the Constitution Act is void because the Government had no sovereign power delegated to it
by the New Zealand people.

Leading British constitutional law expert, Professor D P OConnell, a recognised international expert, says transfers of
sovereignty must be marked by a break in legal continuity. But the former Dominions, thinking stability was the most
important factor, ignored the need to re-codify the laws and constitutional basis of the government.

"There is a law called the Law of State Succession," says Henke, "which is basically the mechanics by which those
breaks are overcome to ensure that you dont end up with total chaos. But nothing was ever done.

"All theyve done is ignored the existence of the break and run a PR job on the people telling them everything is
fine, deliberately made sure they never told them the truth, and just let it run from there."

The issue is so grave, that even New Zealand constitutional law expert, Victoria Universitys Tony Angelo, doubts that New
Zealand courts would have any powers to even hear legal argument if their jurisdiction was challenged.

He cites the case of Simpson v Attorney General, a New Zealand case from the 1950s where Simpson alleged the
Government was unconstitutional because he discovered the electoral writs had not been issued within the timeframe
required for the election.

"The court said well, this is all very fine, but were not in a position to re-establish a parliament. We can say yes,
everythings invalid because the process wasnt followed as it should have been, but were not in a position to re-
start the machine.
 "The judges said actually, if what you say is true, none of us have been lawfully appointed and therefore we cant
validly decide your case."

To get around the problem, the court opted for a novel solution, ruling that the word "must" in the Act could also mean
"may". Whether the verdict was legally correct was irrelevant, as Philip Joseph points out.

"They managed to find a way around that, because it would have brought the system crashing down on its head,
otherwise. That was a pragmatic response to a pressing constitutional challenge."

It is issues like this, Joseph concedes, that demonstrate how the sovereignty of the people of New Zealand has arguably
been usurped by Parliament and by the Courts.

Both institutions will attest to the constitutionality of the other if either faces a challenge, whilst the people must accept their
verdicts or actions.

"That is an argument that you could put, but ultimately if you test it in the courts you wont succeed, I can tell you
that, because our Court of Appeal would simply say we can trace our authorities back."

As for the arguments by other New Zealand constitutional experts that the Governments power to make statute law
overrides everything else, Henkes attitude is "prove it".
 "The question is: where does it get its power from? A very simple question. Every Government has to get its power
based on something. It cant be based on the divine right of kings, because that ended when they chopped
Charles head off. The current Royal Family will be sovereigns only if they obey the specific requirements of
English statutory law.

Now try and think about this one: the courts have tried to push the idea that its like dual citizenship you can have
the Queen of New Zealand and the Queen of the United Kingdom. But if you have dual citizenship you can
surrender either one without affecting the other.

However in this case its an a priori requirement that to be Queen of New Zealand, somebody must already be the
Queen of the United Kingdom. They could not abdicate as Queen of the United Kingdom and remain Queen of
New Zealand, so trying to separate the British authority component is an impossibility. You cant do it."

Which raises an even more dramatic possibility, according to Tony Angelo:

"May we still be a colony? I mean, the person of our sovereign is in the UK. Our final court of appeal is in the UK.
We have not localised those two things. Internationally we would say we are independent and we have a Queen of
New Zealand who is different from the Queen of England, and the Privy Council advises the Queen of New
Zealand not the Queen of England, but that is a total mystery it is an act of faith to accept that."

"He could be absolutely right," says Henke. "Thats one of the possibilities that we are all still colonies of Britain
and not independent. Now if that is so, then every one of the treaties we have signed, and in Australias case thats
about 4000, are null and void. And were all British citizens again, except that British law says were not, so we
become stateless people.

"As you can see, its a fascinating series of twists. And we did not believe when we started out that we would find
anything like this."

The problem now facing citizens of New Zealand, Australia and Canada is how to regain constitutional control of their
governments.
The only previous attempt at drafting anything close to a real constitution in New Zealand was Sir Geoffrey Palmers Bill of
Rights, which codified a number of basic rights but said "notwithstanding" those rights, nothing in the Bill could remove the
Governments statutory powers.

Ian Henke says attempts to draw up lists of rights are futile.

"Look, the issue is very simple. Once you become a sovereign nation, all of the rights belong to the people. And
they delegate to a parliament and a government so much of their rights as are necessary to keep government
going. And thats all. Anything that is not so delegated remains the rights of the people.

"In other words, you dont have to draft a Bill of Rights to say what rights the people have got. All you have to draft,
in any decent democracy, is a Constitution that says which of the rights, belonging to the people, the government
is allowed to exercise."

So New Zealands new Constitution could say, "We the people retain all rights, but we delegate the following
powers to the Government"

Allowing for the fact that future Governments could face some unforeseen problem and require extra power, Henke
suggests that the Government should be forced to ask its citizens, via binding referenda, to vote on constitutional
amendments if necessary.

Such a constitution could even provide for the Government to be allowed to exercise emergency powers, for a maximum of
six weeks, in order to deal with an unexpected crisis. The time limit allows enough time for the issue to be put to the vote.

"The Government doesnt need all our rights to do things. It only needs some. So the Government must have no
 rights over the freedom of individuals, and so you just never give it to them. Then, in order to enforce something,
the Government has got to prove that what theyre trying to enforce falls under the context of what they have been
granted by the Constitution.

It puts the onus of proof on the Government to prove that they are acting lawfully, rather than as it currently exists
where individuals must prove that the Government is acting unlawfully."

Angelo believes the recent push by New Zealanders for more control over their governments is driven by a subconscious
realisation that weve been flying blind, in a constitutional sense.

"We have only one protection, and that is the semi-entrenched requirement of elections every three years.
Intuitively, why people have consistently said well keep the term short is, I think, because theyve realised that it
is their only hold on the system. Because logically youd look for a four or five year term, but if you look at those
referenda the populace consistently say no, dont change it.

"The Ombudsman came out of that desire for greater control, Official Information came out of that, MMP came out
of that, but the basic issue is not being addressed and that is because it is not part of the Anglo-Saxon
constitutional tradition to do things this way.

"The fact is that now were probably the only nation that thinks like that, Britain is now so caught up with the
European Union that even if it hasnt set its own constitution it is falling within other peoples structures. It seems
were closest to the pure model.

"But until you can get some popular groundswell, no politician is going to run with it."

In Australia, however, its a different story. The Institute of Taxation Research is playing hardball with the Australian
Government.

"An application for the appointment of an International Criminal Tribunal has been submitted to the UN, for
Australia. We have forwarded copies to every single country who has a delegation to the UN. No country has
returned the document to us.

"Copies went to the Secretary-General as well as the Security Council. A number of countries have offered active
support in bringing the matter to a head. It is currently being worked through by the [UN] Human Rights
Commission. It is currently being worked on by a number of the other countries who were signatories to the
treaties that gave Australia and New Zealand their independence. They have indicated to us that as signatories to
those treaties they are duty bound to push the matter before the International Court.

"We are, despite what the politicians here are saying, moving down the track to a declaration by the International
Court that this current government is nothing but an illegal offshoot of the United Kingdom Government.

"Even the UK Government is saying now Its not us! Its them. Weve given them the legislation saying theyre
independent. If these people are doing it its them, theyre doing it wrong. Were actually asking the International
Court, amongst other things, to have the United Kingdom repeal the Constitution Act, just to strike it right out so
there can be no pretence any longer that it still exists."

What Investigate expected when we began this research was to find strong and forceful legal opinion that this constitutional
timebomb claim was wrong that it was merely the ramblings of a few cranks. Instead, of all the leading New Zealand
constitutional lawyers we spoke to, both on and off the record, one comment sums them up:
 "It is very problematic, and there is no clear answer to these questions you are posing."

That such an admission carries with it the possibility that our courts are invalid, our government has no constitutional right to
pass laws, that the Waitangi Treaty became null and void on 10 January 1920 when we signed the League of Nations
Covenant, that the new drivers licence laws are invalid pick any issue you like all of this means New Zealand faces
some very serious decisions in the very near future.

This question is likely to get a major airing when constitutional experts meet in Parliaments Legislative Chamber in April to
debate whether New Zealand needs a written constitution. At this point, one might be tempted to say the question is not
"whether", but "when".

John Key Wants War Between Maori And Pakeha. Are You Going To Let Him?
January 25 2016 | From: AotearoaAWiderPerspective

On the 4th of February 2016 two days before Waitangi day. John Key intends to sign the TPPA. The
treaty will allow international corporations to usurp most of New Zealands sovereignty. It will
deregulate the financial industry, allow corporations to sue our government for loss of profit if we
dont let them run rough shod over what is left of our fragile ecological systems and destroy what
is left of our social support systems.
It will also destroy one of the most important social documents and contracts of this country: the Treaty of
Waitangi.

And John Key knows this. The ruling elite knows this and they like the idea! What is more, most Pakeha who identify with
the ruling elite rather than face reality and realise they are part of the 99%, like that idea too!

And its an easy fault line for the 1% to aggravate the 99% into an all out civil war between Maori and Pakeha and here is
what is being done to make sure they get what they want.

The signing of the TPPA in Auckland two days before Waitangi day guaranteed to incite a heated emotional response.

John Key intending to attend the Commemorations at Waitangi Marae which is the mother of all shit stirring exercises.

Opinion Pieces in major news papers inciting racial division and Mike Hosking pandering to the basest of prejudices as
ususal!

Releasing information about riot police being trained to deal with political unrest to inflame emotions.

People inciting violence in comments on political blogs to make sure the people who own those blogs can be arrested or
made redundant as part of the aggressive political fringe loonies when they try to inform people.

Putting up the rag touted as the new flag to inflame emotions.

And here is what is traditionally done to make sure unrest will arise even if the people keep their cool:

So what can you do to help the people in Waitangi to speak truth to power and make sure this can not be pinned on Maori
being obstinate?

For starters if you are Pakeha, Chinese, Indian, European, Muslim ,Christian, in short not Maori and against the TPPA, you
can go to Waitangi in support of the refusal of The Waitangi Marae Kaumatua to receive government officials in protest of
the signing. Show them you wont be played against each other and that New Zealanders of any creed and background are
against the corporate take over of New Zealand!

Do so in peace and respect for the treaty and the people there.

Maori or otherwise: prevent anybody from becoming violent or aggressive and keep it dignified and silent and allow the
sheer number of people to speak rather than individual voices. Even if they sign the TPPA they have to implement it and
that will only happen if we let them.

Take mirrors and let the trained government thugs have a goo long look at themselves! It works in Ukraine! We need the
people authorised by the banker usurper John Key to commit violence, to realise that they are also part of the 99% being
sucked dry by the banksters!

And remember all of us living on these Islands: This is our home! We can make it heaven or hell. The international
banksters are hell-bent on making it hell. Lets not give it to them! Lets commit to make peace and abundance for
all!

Disinterest In Pre-Maori History Stuns

January 25 2016 | From: BreakingViews

Official disinterest in pre-Maori New Zealand history stunned Australian-based researchers Peter
Marsh and Gabi Plumm in Part 1 of their new documentary series titled Skeletons in the Cupboard.

Episode 1 The Redheads assembles evidence that Aryans from India migrated to the islands of the Pacific,
including New Zealand.

The idea is not new. Edward Tregear's 1885 book The Aryan Maori had the same suggestion at a time when ideas about
Aryan (or Caucasian) migrations became popular and were applied to New Zealand.
Mainstream historians like Richard Hill, Vincent O'Malley, and the late Michael King, dismiss the theories as lacking
evidence, not bearing scrutiny, wild speculation, racist, or seeking to discredit Waitangi Tribunal claims.

Substantial evidence collected in 1988 that showed human occupation of New Zealand pre-dated Maori occupation by
thousands of years was hidden in National Archives for 75 years. This includes carbon dating collected by 37 government-
funded archaeologists in a one-year survey of stone structures in the Waipoua Forest near Dargaville.

Plumm interviewed one of those archaeologists, Noel Hilliam, who said that the initial dating showed the structures went
back to 2225BC, which is about 3150 years before Maori history began in New Zealand.

Why the cover-up? Hilliam said:

The Maori guy in charge of the Waipoua survey closed the operation down the day after the initial dating came
through.

The survey was deposited at National Archives in Wellington with a note requiring approval of the Te Roroa-Waipoua
Achaeological Advisory Committee or other appropriate Te Roroa authority for release of any of the data.
There was a significant noticeable change in Maori culture after they arrived in New Zealand 800 years ago, Plumm said.

They built planked houses with decorative facades, used single-hulled canoes instead of outriggers, fashioned
terraced village sites with amphitheatres, and created complex art forms not seen in the Pacific. What made them
change? Plumm said.

New Zealand was inhabited when the first Polynesian canoes arrived, according to Maori oral tradition, which includes
accounts of blond-haired, green-eyed flute-playing small people, the Patupaiarehe, as well as red-haired giants.

Plumm showed photos of skeletons in coffins less than 1.5-metres long.

Hilliam obtained DNA analysis of material found in the caves where the skeletons in coffins were located. The forensic
pathologist in the United Kingdom who did the analysis confirmed they had the DNA identical to that of ancient Celtic people
from Wales, and were 3500 years old.
Where did the light-skinned, blond-haired, green-eyed people go? They are still among us. Monica Matumua, who grew up
at Rena on the Wanganui River 27km from Taumarunui, has a family tradition that their ancestors 165 generations ago
migrated from India to escape a war.

If a generation is 20 years, 165 generations goes back 3300 years, to 1285BC, which coincides with the end of the Indus
Valley civilisation in northwest India.

Matumua says her ancestors sailed across the Atlantic to Central America, relocated to South America, sailed to Polynesia,
and sailed further to New Zealand 74 generations ago around 535 CE, landing in the Bay of Islands near Russell.

The name Ngati Hotu was given to her ancestors with the arrival in New Zealand of Kupe, the supposed first Polynesian to
arrive in New Zealand from 925 to 1215 CE.

Matumua was stunned to see that Waitangi Tribunal member and historian Angela Ballara declare that all Ngati Hotu had
been wiped out. Matumua told her story to the tribunal as part of a claim on behalf of Ngati Hotu.

In 2013 she submitted a sample of saliva to the National Geographic Genographic Survey, which aims to map historical
human migration patterns by collecting and analyzing DNA samples from around the world

Results published in Elocal in February of 2014 showed the first reference population matching Matumuas DNA was based
on samples collected from the Kinh ethnic group living in Vietnam. Her second reference population is in Puerto Rico.

Her haplogroup, which includes those people with similar DNA results and where some of her more recent ancestors
settled, showed that parts of South America and New Zealand were very closely related to her DNA code, with Hawaii
particularly close.

Marsh and Plumm also talked to moko artist Jason Phillips, Ancient Celtic New Zealand author Martin Doutre, Barry
Brailsford, who studied the oral history of the Waitaha, and Secret Land series writer Gary Cook.

They referred to an incident in Awanui in the Far North by an excavator driver who found 2000 skeletons hunched in a fetal
postion, bound, and buried.

The driver asked the Auckland Museum for advice and was told the museum could do nothing because the local tribe had
no interest in these remains because they were not their people. The remains were not investigated.
The 60-minute documentary that was released in November of 2015, the first part of a series, is quality cinematography and
sound fronted by the British-born writer of short stories and a childrens book and filmed by a Fiji-born Australian.

Being outsiders and independent of state funding, Marsh and Plumm do not have to pick a side in New Zealands culture
war.

Skeletons in the Cupboard shows that our past is much more interesting than you ever imagined.

Couple Receives Notice Of Search 12 Months After It Happened And Why That Should
Worry You To The Extreme
January 19 2016 | From: AotearoaAWiderPrespective

A golden bay couple received a letter from the police. Attached to that was a signed search
warrant. What was also attached was a postponement notice. The search had taken
place, without their presence, 12 months earlier.

It appears that the police felt they could have something to do with a threat issued against Fonterra. the threat was
that milk powder would be contaminated with 1080.

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The couple, who had an impeccable record of non-violence and peaceful activism both here and in their native country
Germany, was stunned to learn that the police had been in their house and had gathered hair tooth paste swabs and
computer printouts. They had also downloaded telephone data and other storage data from their computers, and Ipads.
They were also stunned that the police had been allowed to do so without their presence and been able to keep it secret for
12 months.

During the period National has been in power several draconian law changes where pushed through. One of them the the
way the police can search your home and the way they can spy on you.
While most law abiding citizens assumed that it was to help the police find real nasty criminals such as drug dealers and
gang members involved in crime or dangerous terrorists, for those of us political activists and bloggers it was just a matter of
time for these powers to be used for the intimidation of people involved in activism of any kind.

The Kleinen family being a perfect example of people who are active and politically aware and who still had a modicum of
trust in the system. From the article you will learn that they are no longer willing to cooperate with the police or even contact
them.

For them to find out a year after the fact that the police had been in their home secretly in January 2015 and had taken
personal and private information as well as samples of their DNA without their knowledge as well as raiding their home
another time in March 2015 when they were present broke whatever trust they have and it will do so for a lot more people.

While the fact that the police can enter your home without your presence, secretly and without supervision is terrifying in and
of itself just imagine what could happen if this becomes the norm and the police see this as a normal part of their
investigation.
What is next?

Will they start planting evidence if they dont like your political views?

Will they, as we witnessed in the Nicky Hager raid, lie to the judge to get search warrants for their political masters and set
people the government doesnt like up to be jailed after kangaroo court proceedings? Some 20 million Russians were killed
in Russia by Stalin whose secret police and KGB torture centres and kangaroo court judges were willingly complicit in doing
just that!

The experience this couple has had will paly out ever more brutally in the coming years if we dont fight this tooth and nail!

The TPPA: New Zealands Democracy

December 10 2015 | From: Scoop

The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) negotiations are concluded, and have shifted to
the next phase - ratification by parliaments. The government is spinning like a top telling us how
wonderful it will be for New Zealand. Forget the figures of $2.7 billion.
They are mere guesstimates, and carefully avoid the costs. The Government's negotiated access to overseas dairy
markets are continually trumpeted as some sort of economic panacea. They are a delusion to anyone but those
with a narrow vision that extends no farther than the commission or the closing of the 'deal'.

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Very Silent Coup?

They are a delusion because there is no way Japan or Canada want to kill their family farm dairy operations in the interests
of industrial production from New Zealand. There are very good economic, environmental and social reasons for that. Its the
same reason the French wont kill off their rural communities by allowing factory dairy products in, and see the dispossessed
move to the slums of Lyon and vote for extremist parties in their despair.

We and the Anglo-American west are about the only countries who think industrial agriculture is a sane approach, and I
dont know why production of dross with an ever-larger factory, rather than creation of multiple co-values. Other than State
Communist collective farms, of course. Now there's a similarity in authoritarian hierarchical thinking worth examining.
And then theyre the increased costs for medicine and the impact on our local communities and businesses forgotten in
the haste to get a dairy deal that will never happen. Other governments are not that nave.

So whats it for, this so-called trade partnership.

Well, they are careful not to discuss that. Trade Minister Tim Grocer wont mention the fact that only some five out of over 20
clauses deal with trade and the rest are about the investment rights of mega-corporations including the ability to sue both
our central and our local government thats you and me.

Heres what Nobel prize economist Joseph Stiglitz says

"The reality is that this is an agreement to manage trade and investment relations and to do so on behalf of each
countrys most powerful business lobbies."

Bryan Gould argues there is a need for an agreement on managing trade. He thinks and I agree that we should look
very carefully at the activities of corporate investors across national boundaries to ensure they comply with our laws, protect
our people and avoid damage to our environment.

The TPPA does the very opposite. It reverses our democracy. It extends their interests without having to bother to consider
ours. We the people now have to be mindful of their corporate interests in making our laws or else.

Or else they can sue. "How dare you reduce our profits for the public good."

It happened when Australia wanted plain packaging on cigarettes. It happened when Egypt wanted to improve labour laws.

If you believe in Adam Smiths village local enterprise with no powerful outside exploiters coming in the make our lives
worse then you should be against this deal.

This deal goes to the core of our democracy. Prof Jane Kelsey issued a challenge to our government that needs to be
addressed:
 "Who gave the Prime Minister and Trade Minister the right to sacrifice our rights to affordable medicine, to regulate
foreign investment, to decide our own copyright laws, to set up new SOEs, and whatever else they have agreed to
in this secret deal and present it to us as a fait accompli?"

This is far from over. The dealmakers havent disclosed the details they should immediately but when they do, expect
outrage. The US congress may be our greatest ally.

Christchurch: The Man-Made Earthquakes - What Really Happened, How And Why
December 5 2015 | From: GodElectric

The Rothschild cartel attacked Christchurch with their Earthquake weaponry killing 185 people and
injuring thousands over a prolonged period.

This article is written from the perspective of someone on the ground during these events, employed at the leading
Geotechnical Engineering firm in the country, which was responsible for the Earthquake Commission land damage
assessments. I am not a whistleblower, the people in the military have yet to come forward.

It is believed that the motive for the attack was financial greed. The Rothschild cartel used the military industrial complex to
target the Central Business District of Christchurch, the area with the highest land values as a method of releasing stored
funds.

Prior to the Christchurch Earthquake New Zealand was the least indebted nation of the western world. Increasing
Government debt driving wealth back into corrupt insurance cartels of the City of London and other financial institutions of
the world was done at the expense of the people of New Zealand.
The motive of greed meant the destruction of the city was planned meticulously. Little thought was given in regards to any
rebuild.

Corrupt banking cartels privately bought up the most profitable part of the reconstruction process, the project management
companies like Fletchers, in advance of the Earthquake occurring.

Earthquakes are the result of charge displacement, causing underground lightning. The hieroglyphs describe the dynamics
of Earth events, through the relationship explained by Sekhmet and Ptah.

To understand how Earthquakes can be electrically induced, we will begin by explaining what is commonly termed as
HAARP.

Related: Chemtrails, Geoengineering, Weather Modification & Weather Warfare

Bernard Eastlunds patent is shown below adjacent to the Tutankhamen headrest, together highlighting how the dynamics of
the Earth and how it can be used to magnify energy for natural disasters. In theory HAARP can charge the Van Allen Belts
moving charge layers, inducing charge in the rocks below.

Bernard Eastlund HAARP Patent alongside Tutankhamen Headrest.

The conclusion section of the patent contains the following text:

 This invention has a phenomenal variety of possible ramifications and potential future developments... Two new
approaches to weather modification and control are suggested.

The first is for manipulation of the steering winds that control the development of mesocyclones, or the modification
of the directions of the jet streams that influence development of hurricanes. The second is a method for
influencing the electrical charge distribution in weather patterns such as meso-cyclones.

Possible defense applications include a method of accelerating electrons to MEV energies in conjunction with the
HAARP antenna. Research applications include the creation of bright and controlled guide stars for astrophysical
purposes.

Thus it can be seen that the ramifications are numerous, far-reaching, and exceedingly varied in usefulness."

Shu - Djed Column

Djed column

I believe a number of different types of Earthquake weapons were used on Christchurch. I happened to be positioned at
both the transmission and receiving nodes during the December earthquake event and was subsequently mind controlled
out of the country, narrowly escaping death.
Raytheon, the company owned by Rothschild cartel bought the patents to HAARP and have offices in Christchurch, what is
more worrying is they also have bases located across the entire Antarctic continent. This is of significant strategic
importance.

John Key says: Christchurch Earthquake was man made?

Even though it is clear that New Zealand Prime Minister is a Cabal sellout / placement (or there is simply no way
he would have come to hold such an office), he was clearly fumbling or pissed off on some level with what
happened there as he twice referrs to the quake/s as man made in a thinly veiled manner:

Signals are magnified at the poles of the earth many thousands of times by the phenomenon known as Tesla Magnifying
Resonance, creating the energy required for large natural disasters. Because of this phenomenon both Lockheed Martin,
Raytheon, the U.S. Navy, Russia and China are in a race for military supremacy at the poles.

SuperDARN is one such array that is already established at the poles of the earth under the guise of experimentation, it
does however have hidden modes of operation which have been photographed such as at Unwin radar.
The Unwin Radar

The station is very significant from a global perspective as it completes a worldwide network of radars focussed on
auroral zones, called SuperDARN.

Southland is regarded as an ideal location for such a facility because of the southerly aspect, low radio noise and
unobstructed horizon."

- From the Venture Southland website

The Unwin Radar (Left) and significant ionization visible near Unwin SuperDARN Radar - Bluff, New Zealand (right)

The SuperDARN radar is strategically located, near the main electricity trunk line from Manapouri power plant that serves
the Aluminium smelters at the south of the island.

I was holidaying near Bluff on the Southern tip of New Zealand, 3 days before the December 2011 earthquake for my trip to
Stewart Island. I saw an ionized rainbow cloud not more than 1km above the surface of the earth, I heard clicking
interference on the radio and suffered severe drowsiness. Later that day there was a wave formation of clouds going back to
a singular point in the sky as far as the eye could see.

Below is a picture of backscatter in Bluff, this was occurring during the week prior to the larger earthquake events in
Christchurch.
22 December 2012 (Approx. 24hrs to Event) - Backscatter producing Scalar Cloud Spiral near Unwin Radar - Bluff, New Zealand

Before the larger earthquake event Russian media channel RT reported 107 dead pilot whales being washed ashore on
Stewart Island, close to where Unwin radar is located.

Because of the power transmitted into the ionosphere by these antennae interference can be heard on all bands of the car
radio, shown below.
Truthers on the internet did a great job of exposing what happened, with videos such as the one below appearing on
Youtube.

The power for these Earthquakes is not generated in the core of the Earth. The hieroglyphs explain we are part of an
Electric Universe. Gods Electricity flows through the galaxy charging planets and stars.

SuperDARN type RADARs couple into the ionosphere through mechanics explained by Pakhet, generating the power
needed to create the larger natural disasters such as erupting volcanoes and earthquakes.

When used in this manor the Galactic power line, or Gods Electricity is used to destroy cities like Christchurch, New Zealand
and others. God will answer this stupidity, its written into the heart of our civilization, in our music as an Omen.
Central Business District Targeted - Christchurch, New Zealand

The earthquakes were 'pepperdusted' daily across the Canterbury plain by the military industrial complex. Coordinates were
given regardless of the lithosphere - hallmark evidence that a HAARP weapon was being used to generate the land
damage. Sometimes ruptures would occur less than 10km below the surface of Christchurch, at extremely shallow depths.

The vertical acceleration was recorded up to 2.7G or 2.7 times the force of gravity, extraordinarily high for the magnitude of
earthquake. For a shallow rupture to develop such a high vertical force HAARP or an Earthquake weapon is the only
plausible explanation, the physics are more akin to having a bomb detonate underground.
2.7G Vertical Acceleration. Shallow Rupture. Click on the image above to view a bigger version in a new window

In the Cashmere Caverns below Christchurch, one of the worlds most accurate Ring Lasers was installed in 2005. This
extremely expensive and sensitive equipment was unmanned and supposedly installed for the Canterbury Physics
department.

It did however have a live uplink onto the internet which the military could in theory have accessed allowing them to
accurately calculate the charge state of the surrounding area.

Fox news also reported that 9 US senators, plus the head of FEMA and a "delegation" just "happened" to be in
Christchurch New Zealand and just "happened" to leave a couple of hours before the quake struck.

They marked the anniversary of the Earthquake with an electrical weather event. Golf ball hail rained down on the people of
Christchurch.

Could the NWO be in the process of unknowingly for filling Bible prophecy -

Earthquakes in divers places."

- (Matt 24:7) (Mark 13:8) (Luke 21:11)

If you read this article, it is important you understand the site mindcontrol.se. Your thoughts are not always your own.

Also I can recommend reading Robert Duncans Book Soul Catcher. It has a very exact account of the methods and
practices used to torture me, as a Civil Engineer who saw the truth whilst on the ground in Christchurch. I never cried for
these people that tortured me, despite being locked up, tortured and discredited so that I lost my career.

The only times I would ever cry is when they would use my true love against me, threatening to rape and abuse her via
synthetic experiences, synthetic telepathy and Voice to Skull technology.

I underwent years of torture like this. The most hurtful of any being ten years earlier for reasons I do not understand, they
deceived her from me using this technology soon after we fell in love whilst studying at University.

(Note: On page 235 Robert Duncan explains that the leadership of this planet still use the phonetic translation of the
hieroglyphs to communicate, which is effectively showing their complete ineptitude due to greed. They failed to look at even
the basic principles in nature knowing full well this is an Electric Universe.)

The hieroglyphs for Ramesses and Osiris explain that the electrical resonance of Earth and the creation of Earthquakes is
watched by the Gods or advanced life in the cosmos. Not only this but every thought is being watched, including the entirety
of the Illuminati or leadership of this planet.

The symbol that is the Eye of Providence carries with it this very meaning, that nothing is hidden from the cosmos. The
cosmos allows free will on Earth but explains clearly that this universe is about love.

The leadership of our planet has become stupid over time because they do not follow this path, instead following a path of
greed, blinding them from the real truth which is Gods earth. It is true that I proved God to my mind controller, by
deciphering the hieroglyphs infront of them as they tortured me from my true love.
Anubis - Egyptian Jackal

Truth is stranger than fiction, its an extraordinary Universe and our hearts and minds are linked to it

- Anubis

The meaning of the word conspiracy - "A secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful".

Related: Was the Christchurch earthquake a terrible natural disaster, or was it a terrible MAN MADE disaster?

My Story [Draft]

Note: The following account was written by the author of the article above. It deals with advanced mind
control technologies which most people are not aware of. This material is disturbing - and will sound unbelievable
to some - but the reality is that these technologies do in fact exist . Images have been added to provide context.

Related: Monarch Mind Control & The MK-Ultra Program

I am a TI that has been extensively tortured using military grade mind control since 2002. My girlfriend was taken from me
and I believe she was raped however I am unable to help her because she refuses to speak with me. I have been placed
under HAARP during its activation for the 4th largest induced earthquake in Christchurch.

I have also been subjected to years of synthetic experiences, they use the love I have for my girlfriend as a means to try and
break me down. The worst torture I have endured has been months of a tingling sensation under my scrotum induced my
military grade mind control weaponry with a man in my head saying "she is being penetrated by another man".

The Summary of Events

New Zealand I arrived in New Zealand August 2011, blissfully ignorant that manmade earthquakes were a reality, having
never heard of HAARP or Electric Universe theory. I immediately started work at T&T where I was to evaluate Land damage
for the Canterbury Land Information report and EQC claims.

EQC is the New Zealand Earthquake commission that provide disaster insurance for residential property in the event of a
natural disaster. I am a fit and healthy man who understands his body, it was apparent that working in Christchurch I would
suffer from severe exhaustion, usually in the run up to Earthquakes.

I was also speaking to the people of Christchurch, face to face contact with up to 30 Earthquake victims per day and many
would describe similar symptoms. If you have ever been in a big earthquake you will understand the immense power to
behold, to comprehend how this could be man-made took me some deliberation.

I have explained using the hieroglyphs and the theory behind Tesla Magnifying Resonance using the Earth and how they
achieve this effect in the appendix of this document. December 19th I was driving a hire car to Bluff for a Christmas vacation
to Stewart Island, I approached Bluff from the Catlins Conservatory Park on the Tokanui Gorge Road Highway and Gorge
Road Invercargill Highway.
Related: Unraveling Nikola Teslas Greatest Secret: Radiant Energy

All the occupants of the vehicle, were suffering from severe drowsiness and were asleep despite being fully rested the
previous day at Dunedin. Sometime between 2:00pm and 4:00pm close to my approach to Invercargill outside the left hand
window of the vehicle was a ionized rainbow cloud, not more than 1km above the surface of the earth.

It puzzled me and I questioned the occupants of the vehicle as to what sort of rainbow can appear in a cloud, no one could
answer the question and we did not stop to investigate because we were all suffering from severe drowsiness. There was
also clicking interference on all bands of the car radio, including FM.

I have included a photo similar to what I saw that day below. At this point I also received a subliminal message which I
originally thought was God, saying "You will need that cloud later". I now know that message was sent by a mind controller
on this earth who has been targeting me for some time.

That evening we stayed at a Hostel in Bluff, I looked out to the North and could see wave formation of clouds going back as
far as the eye could see, it ended at a singular point in the sky close to where I saw the ionized rainbow earlier that day. 3
days later The 4th largest earthquake struck Christchurch, luckily there were no deaths.

Upon further investigation on my return to Christchurch it revealed that the Unwin SuperDARN Radar was close to the
location. Part of the SuperDARN array, Super Dual Auroral Radar Network evolved in the west during the late Cold War.
Then we had a strange earthquake late one night which was more like a Vertical bounce.

I then started scouring the internet for information about HAARP. I wrote an email to Structural Geologist from Otago
University questioning his article about the earthquakes and their causes. 4 weeks later I was posted on an unusual job to
investigate slump from extraordinary excessive rainfall of someone's front drive in Akaroa.
It became apparent that the front drive I was investigating was the Structural Geologist I had emailed querying manmade
earthquakes 4 weeks prior. Upon meeting him in the drive we discussed the idea, he was having great difficulty he said
writing another article on the subject - I believe secretly suspicious in what I was saying.

The mind controller was able to make people speak, I remember the specific urge to talk words that I did not want to say
when others around me were talking. I kept quiet but found the whole experience odd, eventually working out that it was a
mind controlled event. The probability of me arriving on his front drive with the thousands of houses and EQC claims
available, was mind control - though not apparent to me at that time.

Sometime continued and I carried on investigating man-made earthquakes using HAARP. Eventually convincing myself of
the science behind such an event. It was after trying to raise the alarm at work I came home and had an audible message in
my ears in the room I was in.
Related: What Is This GWEN Tower Really For? + ELF, GWEN Towers, And HAARP Connection

This was around May-July 2012, shortly after a photo appeared on facebook with her looking like she had fallen down some
stairs, however she would not speak to me so I was unable to understand what went on. Naturally intrigued as to what mind
control was I seek answers, it was only now that I began waking up to mind control and the fact that they could both listen to
control the thoughts in your head.

I would be surfing the internet, if I found a website on the subject it would become apparent that it was increasingly difficult
to concentrate. I put together more and more evidence, and was positioning myself to wake up people in Christchurch. It
was shortly after I tried to wake up a work colleague, which I returned home to have an audible message.

Continue reading at: GodElectric

Maori Elders Explain The Meaning Of The Hongi And The Ancient Maori Traditions
November 25 2015 | From: WhiteWolfPack

A hongi is a traditional Mori greeting in New Zealand. It is done by pressing one's nose and
forehead (at the same time) to another person at an encounter.
It is used at traditional meetings among Mori people and on major ceremonies and serves a similar purpose to a
formal handshake in modern western culture, and indeed a hongi is often used in conjunction with one.

In the hongi, the ha (or breath of life), is exchanged and intermingled.

Through the exchange of this physical greeting, one is no longer considered manuhiri (visitor) but rather tangata whenua,
one of the people of the land. For the remainder of one's stay one is obliged to share in all the duties and responsibilities of
the home people. In earlier times, this may have meant bearing arms in times of war, or tending crops, such as kumara
(sweet potato).

When Mori greet one another by pressing noses, the tradition of sharing the breath of life is considered to have come
directly from the gods.

In Mori legend, woman was created by the gods moulding her shape out of the earth. The god Tne (meaning male)
embraced the figure and breathed into her nostrils. She then sneezed and came to life. Her name was Hineahuone (earth
formed woman).

At her home just north of Tuai, a small town in the mountains of the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, Dr. Rangimarie
Turuki Rose Peri shares a song in her own language.

Rose welcomes people from all over the world into her home to talk about ancient Maori ways and the importance of
learning to understand and respect different peoples, cultures, traditions and the environment around us.
Easter Island - Ancient Links With New Zealand Maori
May 28 2015 | From: WakaHuia

Life on what is said to be the most remote inhabited island in the world -- Easter Island or Rapa Nui
the naval of the Pacific.

Through the stories and insights of the Rapa Nuian people we discover ancient roots and uncanny similarities to
Aotearoa, roots centuries old are reconnected when Mana Epiha travels to the kainga or homeland of his distant
Polynesian cousins.

As of 2011, Rapa Nui's main source of income derived from tourism, which focuses on the giant sculptures called Moai.

The Real Indigenous People Of NZ

April 16 2015 | From: Youtube

With official recognition by Auckland University of ancient standing stones, with discovery of stone walls, carved
boulders, and ancient working solar observatories, there is compelling evidence of a pre - celtic peoples inhabiting
New Zealand as long as 4500 years ago.
This 6 minute clip asks why is there a wall of silence on this most important part of NZ's early history?

Mike Butler: Gareth Morgan Wrong On Treaty

February 6 2015 | From: BreakingViews

Self-appointed guru Gareth Morgan bought into human-induced global warming in an earlier book
and his current work on the Treaty of Waitangi shows him as a devotee of the make-it-up-as-you-go-
along biculturalism that is the defining characteristic of New Zealands race gravy train.
Also see: Gunpoint treaty threat and other lies

Promoting Are we there yet? The future of the Treaty of Waitangi, Morgan has got the New Zealand Herald to agree to
run a four-part series to promote his book, with the first installment published today.

Comment: Since he cashed up, Gareth Morgan has become a wilful idiot in attaching himself to half-baked topics
such as man-made global warming and killing cats. This is the latest of his fumbling attempts to find some relevance.

Also; as an astute reader pointed out: "There is one element you should be aware of, which is in the minds of those
who sold the land, no one can actually own the land, as the land is here before us and will be here after us. We are
care takers of the land, which is a completely different mindset to the western way of thinkng and the Maori may have
been mislead in the first place. Maori only see themselves are care takers and inheritors, you can not sell something
that does not belong to you in the first place."

His conclusion that the treaty process is a success because the treaty is now taken to mean whatever Maori leaders and the
Crown, as the publics representatives, agree it means ignores the elephant in the room by way of a racial faultline that came
into existence with the creation of the Waitangi Tribunal in 1975.

Along this faultine has widened a gap of haves and have-nots, both among citizens with some Maori ancestry and between
those of Maori ancestry and those without, with the progress of successive full and final settlements.

The total settlement bill to March last year was $2.3-billion. The newly rich tribal corporations pay little or no tax and two
entities, Waikato-Tainui and Ngai Tahu, are entitled to repeated top-ups as a percent of the increasing grand total.

Morgans assertion that making it up as they (Crown and claimants) go along was necessary because "the original documents
arent very useful shows that he has not looked closely at the texts of either Te Tiriti or the official English and has ruled out
the Busby February 4 draft, also known as the Littlewood treaty.

Morgan has either forgotten or has not thought about the fact that the treaty was drafted in English and translated into Maori,
which means the meaning and intent is clear in the source document, the original English.
That source document is quite likely the Busby February 4 draft that has only four words that differ from Te Tiriti, one of which
is the date. But any mention of that document brings a torrent of spat tacks from grievers on the gravy train.

Because Morgan is woefully ignorant of the contents of the treaty he can make an idiotic statement like how do we help
Maoridom realise the all-important aspirations encompassed in rangatiratanga (used in Article 2, te reo version) in modern day
Aotearoa New Zealand?

If he had looked at the English source draft to see what the word rangatiratanga translated in Article 2, he would have seen
that it translated the English word possession, as in the Queen of England confirms and guarantees to the chiefs and the
tribes and to all the people of New Zealand, the possession of their lands, dwellings and all their property.

Morgan is also wrong to buy into land-loss rhetoric when he writes justice and reparations have been a long time coming and,
as generous as they might look to non-Maori, theyre just cents in the dollar for what Maori lost in terms of property.

No mention by Morgan of the fact that land-owner Maori sold New Zealand to the wicked white coloniser in hundreds of
transactions painstakingly recorded in Turtons deeds posted for all to see on the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre of the
Victoria University of Wellingtons website.

New Zealand has 26.8-million hectares of land. A total 1.2-million hectares were confiscated during the 1860s wars (much of
which was returned at the time). There are approximately 1.47 million hectares of Maori land (including customary land).
Therefore, Maori land owners sold 24.13-million hectares.

The staggeringly foolish policy by the fourth Labour government to look into grievances back to 1840 invited claimants to get
cash-for-grievance top-ups on 19th century sale and purchase agreements.

Once "rangatiratanga" is understood to translate "possession", Morgan's pompous assertion about the "all-important
aspirations encompassed in rangatiratanga" is reduced to the nonsensical concept of aspirations to asserting possession over
property already sold.

And if "rangatiratanga" is taken to mean "self-determination", the "rangatiratanga" aspiration appears to describe either the
state of self-reliance that every citizen who works for a living already has or Maori separatism. If the latter is the case, is
Morgan talking up Maori separatism?

I challenge Morgan to present a coherent argument to support his contention that "because the chiefs signatures were on the
te reo version, its certainly possible they didnt cede sovereignty then".

If he had read the treaty he would know that article 1 clearly states the chiefs of the Confederation of the United Tribes and the
other chiefs who have not joined the confederation, cede to the Queen of England for ever the entire Sovereignty of their
country.
Anyone who refers to the "unique bicultural character of Aotearoa New Zealand" in a sentence, as Morgan does, has outed him
or herself as a card-carrying treatyist who is looking for a seat on the gravy train.

Even though Morgan criticises the conduct of the Waitangi Tribunal I don't hold much hope for his proposal for a different
course.

Why Treaty-Based Constitution 'A Disaster for New Zealand'

November 22 2012| From: BenjaminFulford

A very interesting report and exchange if ideas with respect to New Zealand; worth a read.

"Here is yet another case being filed against the cabal:

November 19, 2012

Dear Benjamin Fulford:

I am writing to inform you of a pending $150 Trillion US Dollar legal action between King George Watene Tautari of the Maori
and the New Zealand Government/The Crown. I am also writing to ask for your help.
The Maori King must raise funds to pay the legal costs to bring his Case to the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

Firstly, I will share with you the highlights of the case.

In essence, this starts in 1760, when King George 111 of England and King Waitaheke Tautari of the Maori entered into a
Private Trade Agreement. King George was bankrupt at this time and needed help to discharge his debt.

The agreement was for the Maori to collect Kauri trees (which produce a hardwood for boat building and fine furniture) and
trade them for gold bullion. The gold bullion was to be held in trust by the King of England and all colonial lands owned by the
Maori people throughout the world would be leased for a 99 year period by The Crown with an agreed upon 60/40 split (60%
to Maori and 40% to the English). In addition, all Commonwealth colonies had access to the gold bullion (which was being
held in Trust by the King of England), and could borrow against it, as long as they returned it with interest in gold bullion.

In 1820, the agreement was still active, with Kauri trees continuing to be harvested and sold for gold bullion. In the early
1820's, King Ngawaka Tautari of the Maori set up 59 Merchant (Creditor) Banks using the interest on the gold to finance and
back bank guarantee hundreds of Wholesale/Retail (Debtor) banks in 59 countries. In 1911, King Ngawaka Tautari's
successor, using the compounding interest from the 59 Merchant banks set up a 60th Merchant/Creditor Bank (BNZ), which
was bank guaranteed by the 59 Merchant Banks.

In 1995, King George Watene Tautari succeeded his father and for the past 14 years, has been trying to unravel what has
happened to his people's wealth.

He discovered that in 1967 the accounts set up by his ancestors were being illegally accessed and the funds being withdrawn.
Furthermore, in 1992, the 1000+ accounts, which had enormous amounts of money in them (48 zeros), were changed from
grey screens to black screens without legal authorization, and the accounts were credited to 60 individual Maori names with
1000's of subsidiary accounts for each name.

Also, in 1992, the BNZ Merchant/Creditor Bank was illegally sold and the $12 Billion in assets were seized and distributed
amongst the NZ Government, the US Government, the CIA, FBI, and others, and came to be known as the Wine Box
Enquiry. The details of all of this, are well presented in the documents (see attached PDF file).

The historical explanation is contained in the letter of October 2, 2012, from King George Watene Tautari to NZ Prime Minister
John Key, which starts on page 27 (see attached PDF file) .

Letters from King George of the Maori to the Prime Minister of Australia, the UN, the World Bank, heads of Corporations that
were fraudulently sold and many others are also included. King George is seeking payment of $150 Trillion US Dollars in
damages; the return of all businesses and property sold fraudulently; and return of 60% ownership of all NZ Crown and NZ
Government Corporations to King George Watene Tautauri of Maori Nation.
The initial Notice and Cease and Desist letters are dated October 2, 2012. As there was no legal reply, Notices of Default
were sent out are dated November 13 and received on November 15 and 16, 2012 (see attached).

In order to pay the expected legal costs in the World Court, King George Watene Tautari needs about $100M. King George
has instructed his Attorney General Neal Lyster to seek investors willing to participate in a 50% /50% JV Private Placement
Program that has been offered to him. The King and his Attorney General believe that this is the best why to quickly generate
the required funds for his legal case.

I am no expert with regard to these high yield Programs, however I know they offer exceptional returns. Attorney General,
Neal Lyster is well versed with these types of platforms and will detail the investment to any interested investors. Recently,
Neal described to me in writing how this Platform is managed as follows:

A Managed Buy Sell or MBS is where a Manager Sells the Investor the Bank MTN or BGs.
Then the Manager arranges the Exit Buyer for the Investor.
This happens very quickly like within an hour so the Investor is not out of Pocket at all.
The Investor must put up a minimum of 100M and he / she gets back 20% of the sale price per tranche.
If an Investor is willing to fund a court action I would expect a fair way to do it would be 50-50 share of the profits.
1% is always shared with the Brokers split 50% Buyer side 50% sell side

Attorney General Neal Lyster is available to speak to you about this legal case and the managed MBS in detail.

I am not a licensed agent and this is not an offering of shares or securities.

The reason I am writing this letter to you is because I was recently approached by Neal Lyster to seek financial support to pay
for expenses for the legal case. I originally connected with Prince Neal about 7 years ago, when I was seeking funding for an
ecological city I wanted to build in Mexico (where I currently live, I am Canadian land developer). We ended up becoming
friends, as we share many of the same values and interests, especially in regards to the environment. He recalled that I had
worked in China over 6 years (1992-1998), with the Chinese Electrical Utility President and other high level bureaucrats to
introduce ecologically friendly coal powered plants. He thought I may still have some contacts.

After some reflection, I realized I did not know anyone from my past who had an understanding of global issues, and who
would be motivated to assist. I realized also, that asking an Asian person or group made sense, as any other group with ties to
the UK and Commonwealth could be in a conflict of interest.

I thought of you Ben, because I have followed your work for years and have a lot of respect for what you do. I am especially
impressed with your ability to connect the dots and I believe you to be an honest man. I also know from your background, that
you have a lot of knowledge and experience with respect to high level financial transactions, including trades. And lastly, I
resonate with your values and goals as I have spent a big part of my life on environmental initiatives.

As to the journalistic details of this pending legal case, to my knowledge, this has not been reported in any news outlet of
significance (it has been reported in a Maori newspaper). The people whose names appear of the letters obviously know of
the case, but from what I hear they have taken no legal action, nor offered any defence and are likely unsure of how to
proceed. I believe Neal and King George would welcome journalistic coverage. I would ask you to speak with Neal about what
he is comfortable about revealing before you report on this $150 Trillion Claim. As you can see from the most recent Notice of
Default, this letters were received on November 15th and 16th, 2012 so this news is very current.

I suspect your emails are monitored, however what I am presenting here is not secret and it will eventually get out.

If you can help in any way, please respond to me via return email.
I thank you in advance for anything you can do to help King George of the Maori.

____________________________________________________________________________________________

Dear Mr. Burton,

First you need to understand that you are standing in a long line of creditors to a bankrupt entity. Nonetheless, I am sure that
the New Zealand government can be made to offer a plea bargain.

However, it must be on behalf of the Maori people as a whole and not a specific king.

Is it OK if I publish your letter minus without your personal details?

Benjamin Fulford
____________________________________________________________________________________________

Dear Benjamin,

Thank you for your e-mail. I agree with your observations. The Maori as a whole will benefit.

Yes you may publish my letter minus my personal data.

The Crown may be Bankrupt.... there is a lot of Gold in New Zealand that belongs to the Kings family and the Maori people.
Some say that the Markos Gold is also hidden in NZ. There is known to be Gold in storage under three Air Ports.

There is a greater story here if you get into the Wine Box Inquiry. The NZ, and US Governments the CIA, FBI and others stole
12 Billion from the Kings family Bank.

If you require more details, you can speak to Attorney General Neal Lyster.
Would you like him or myself to call you?

____________________________________________________________________________________________

FW: 48 zeros is nonsense i.e. disinfo

> Hi Ben:
> I just read your next to the lastest report on your blog titled.
> "Here is yet another case being filed against the cabal:"
>
> The part about 48 zeros has to be nonsense or dis-info. If that kind of
> money were to be dispersed to everyone on the planet, each person's
> share would be more than 1 followed by 38 zeros dollars. If this was in
> trillion dollar notes, then each person share of the trillion dollar
> notes would weigh more than one followed by 24 zeros grams or 1 followed
> by 18 zeroes tons of trillion dollar notes. i.e. each person would have
> more than one million - trillion tons of trillion dollar notes. This is
> classic dis-info. Do a little arithmetic.
>
> From your report;
>
> "...He discovered that in 1967 the accounts set up by his ancestors were
> being illegally accessed and the funds being withdrawn. Furthermore, in
> 1992, the 1000+ accounts, which had enormous amounts of money in them
> (48 zeros), were changed from grey screens to black screens without
> legal authorization, and the accounts were credited to 60 individual
> Maori names with 1000's of subsidiary accounts for each name. Also, in
> 1992, the BNZ Merchant/Creditor Bank was illegally sold and the $12
> Billion in assets were seized and distributed amongst the NZ Government,
> the US Government, the CIA, FBI, and others, and came to be known as the
> Wine Box Enquiry. The details of all of this, are well presented in
> the documents (see attached PDF file)..."
>
>
> "Just look at us, everything is backwards; everything is upside down.
> Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge,
> governments destroy freedom, the major media destroys information and religions destroy spirituality."
>

Hello,

The Vatican P2 lodge once showed me a gold dollar bond with 33 more zeroes than a trillion on it. I thing it was decadecillion
or some such ridiculous number.

Hey, I tell you what, I can give you a googleplex of Benjamin dollars if you let me have the rights to all your property.
What do you say?

Talk is cheap and promising the sky in exchange for something real is what these people have been doing for years.

Of course it is fraud.
 Read the blog: BenjaminFulford

Why Treaty-Based Constitution 'A Disaster for New Zealand'

October 31 2012| From: TheNationalBusinessReview

A leading academic says it would be a disaster to adopt a written constitution incorporating the Treaty of Waitangi, something
the Maori Party demands.

Canadian James Allan, who taught law in New Zealand for many years and is now the Garrick professor of law at the
University of Queensland, says he would run a mile from entrenching or incorporating the Treaty into any such instrument.

No one knows what it means when applied to any specific issue, so all you will be buying are the views of the top judges
instead of your own, the voters.

Thats not a trade I would ever make, Prof Allan says in a paper he has just written for the New Zealand Centre for Political
Research.
The Treaty has little content in its few short paragraphs and talk of its principles inherently involves a lot of stuffing it full of
latter day content that no one at the time imagined or intended.

And if, as is overwhelmingly likely, the top New Zealand judges adopt the same sort of living tree interpretive approach that
we see today in Canada, Europe, and among most or many of the top judges in the US and Australia, then there is absolutely
no predicting in advance what may be imposed on Kiwis some time down the road.

Remember, the words can stay exactly the same but their imputed meaning can change and alter as the top judges see fit.

Read the story at the NBR: TheNationalBusinessReview

http://www.wakeupkiwi.com/real-New-Zealand-history.shtml