Tag Archives: NZ Parliament

First mention of the Atlas Network in NZ Parliament (think Seymour)

From The Daily Blog

Remember Seymour in an interview denied any connection to Atlas which is not true. He called it conspiracyEWNZ


The Article 2/2/25:
By Martyn Bradbury

 

Last night [1 Feb] during the reading of ACTs Bill to dump the Productivity Commission, Labour mentioned the Atlas Network for the first time in Parliament…

Whose interests are ACT actually serving here by silencing the Productivity Commission?

The Atlas Network is an international far right think tank whose extreme policy platform seeks to attack public servants, push for radical privatization, dismantle regulation protecting workers and the environment and champions Landlords over renters.

That sounds remarkably similar to this Government. Who is behind the ACT Party and their policy? The Atlas Network sounds exactly like the policy platform of this new Government and the ACT Party, the Taxpayers’ Union and The NZ Initiative all have links to the Atlas Network so I ask , who is really pulling the strings here?

…the Atlas Network are an international far right think tank and George Monbiot has done an expose on how the Atlas Network influences UK politics and TDB has highlighted the links between them and NZ politics.

Look at the Atlas International play book and ask yourself if it sounds familiar…

A crash programme of massive cuts; demolishing public services; privatising public assets; centralising political power; sacking civil servants; sweeping away constraints on corporations and oligarchs; destroying regulations that protect workers, vulnerable people and the living world; supporting landlords against tenants; criminalising peaceful protest; restricting the right to strike.

…watch how each of these extremist free market agendas are being slowly and quietly implemented. The new draconian gang powers

Atlas Network also gets mentioned by the Public Health Communication Centre who note the connections between Tobacco Lobbyists and the Atlas Network…

Tobacco Company Political connections Evidence of industry links
British American Tobacco Casey Costello (NZ First Party) formerly Chair and member of Tax Payers’ Union Board. Now Minister with responsibility for the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990; vaping; smokeless tobacco; oral nicotine.1 Guardian investigation reported TPU received funding from British American Tobacco

 

TPU has links with the Atlas Network, which has received tobacco industry funding.

 

In 2023, a TPU staff member received an Atlas Network competition prize. TPU was described as an Atlas Network partner.

…it also notes that Nicola Willis is a former Nazgul at the NZ Initiative…

     
     
British American Tobacco

Imperial Brands Australasia

Nicola Willis, Deputy leader National Party, formerly Board Director New Zealand Initiative NZI list tobacco companies British American Tobacco and Imperial Brands Australasia as members.

…at some point the mainstream media are going to have two investigate the influence of the Atlas Network over the Political Right in NZ.

It’s good that Labour has started that questioning.

Where are the Greens and the Māori Party?

Atlas Network

SOURCE

Photo credits: The Daily Blog

 

 

How to run an efficient state apology

by Connie Buchanan @ E-TANGATA

A very familiar modus operandi that became more glaringly obvious during and after 2020. EWNZ


Giving an apology on behalf of the state is tricky business. Here’s Connie Buchanan with a summary of how to do the bare minimum.

Stay in your own house. Be where you make the rules and feel most at ease. Where there’s plenty of room for you, but limited space for others.

Invite a mere handful of the thousands of survivors who are owed the apology. Put these few in another room of your house. Give them time to respond to the apology that you haven’t yet delivered. Five minutes each. Do not, yourself, go and sit in that room. It was bad enough having to read their horrible stories in the very long report.

While they are responding to the things you haven’t said yet, get ready to deliver the apology. Wear your normal suit like it’s a normal work day. Stand in your normal spot, surrounded by your normal crew. When you’re ready, bring them in from the other room. Make them be quiet. Make them listen. Make them obey the rules of your house. Keep the rest of the thousands at bay on a one-way live stream.

READ MORE AT THE LINK

 

 

River of Freedom: The true account of the 2022 freedom protests in New Zealand

Some sixteen months after the peaceful assembly of people from all areas of New Zealand was brutally invaded and dispersed by henchmen of the political State, an extraordinary documentary film has emerged: River of Freedom’.

River of Freedom is a documentary being shown in cinemas across New Zealand sharing the inside story of the New Zealand Convoy and Parliament protests in February and March 2022 – who the people were, why they were there, and what happened!  Fed up with covid restrictions and vaccine mandates, thousands of people convoyed to Wellington from all around the country, demanding change and expecting democratic representation.

READ AT THE LINK (PLUS VID LINK)

If you enjoy our posts, check out our sister site truthwatchnz.is

Photo: River of freedom trailer screenshot

NZ’s new PM Hipkins uses ‘globalist speak’ in his first speech to Parliament

Getting off on the right foot Hipkins (who let’s face it wouldn’t be PM if he weren’t a globalist puppet) is spouting their ‘build back better’ rhetoric we’ve been ‘treated’ to since the announcement of the WEF’s (not) great reset that will leave we underlings owning nothing whilst they continue to swan about in personal jets paying lipservice to their other slogan ‘sustainable development’.
Bought & paid for (thanks-to-Ardern) Stuff reports:

“Chris Hipkins commits to ‘build back better’, anticipating billions needed for cyclone recovery” … Stuff

And Australia’s ABC News reports:

“We’ve got to build back better, we’ve got to build back safer and we’ve got to build back smarter” … ABC News

Ardern also pledged, on election night, to build back better. (Warning, before reading at the link get your little paper bag ready)….

“transform[ing] New Zealand into a better place for all of us – a place where we and our children have real hope for a more fair, thriving and abundant future” ..

READ AT THE LINKS:

Other globalist leaders with the BBB speak

Build Back Better (the official NZ site)
BBB Aotearoa New Zealand are a group of sought-after researchers and expert practitioners with reputations for high-quality work and delivery.”

Chris Hipkins commits to ‘build back better’, anticipating billions needed for cyclone recovery

Five ways NZ will be much better if Jacinda makes good on her promise to Build Back Better

“Build Back Better” Principles for Reconstruction (post Christchurch quake)

Photo: screenshot

Red Alert: A Bill proposed in NZ Parliament would allow coroners to record a cause of death as “unascertained natural causes” if they considered no further investigation was required (updated)

Note: a link to download a template letter is now included below should you decide to make a submission EWR

Submissions invited from the public by 28th September, not long to go. This of course comes right at the same time as all cause mortality has hit a record high & is clearly causing overload on the system. It has also come right after a coroner’s ruling that Dunedin plumber Rory Nairn had died from myocarditis caused by the Covid-19 vaccine. Rory’s parents believe their son was failed by NZ’s health authorities.

This proposed Bill will fast track the process and give excessive powers of decision making around that to the coroner. At a time when deaths have increased that would surely be a time to be slowing down the process by employing more staff, not abbreviating such an important task … correctly ascertaining the cause of death no matter how long it takes … a task of providing an avenue of justice to grieving families.

Are we seeing any investigation into these excess deaths?
No… and why not?

All that we are hearing is that this death rate that did not exist before the jab rollout, has nothing to do with the rollout. Pure coincidence. Case closed. These unexplained deaths have even been given a title (for the more gullible to swallow): SADs they are called. Sudden Adult Death Syndrome.

Does anybody smell a proverbial rat with this? Surely?

RELATED: Suddenly Dead Kiwis – Please Explain

Here is an excerpt from the government website page:

“The Justice Committee has called for public submissions on the Coroners Amendment Bill. The bill seeks to facilitate better access to justice for families interacting with the coronial system by making amendments to the Coroners Act 2006. The bill aims to reduce the distress caused to grieving families by reducing the time spent waiting for coronial findings.

The bill would amend the Act by:

  • establishing a new position of a coronial associate, which could undertake many of the more straightforward functions, powers, and duties currently performed or exercised by coroners
  • making it clear that coroners could record a cause of death as “unascertained natural causes” if they considered that the death was from natural causes and no further investigation was required under the Act
  • enabling coroners to decide whether a coronial inquiry should include an inquest
  • enabling coroners to issue written findings stating only the cause of death, and not the circumstances, if they considered that there was no public interest in making findings about the broader circumstances.

The bill would amend the Act by:

  • establishing a new position of a coronial associate, which could undertake many of the more straightforward functions, powers, and duties currently performed or exercised by coroners
  • making it clear that coroners could record a cause of death as “unascertained natural causes” if they considered that the death was from natural causes and no further investigation was required under the Act
  • enabling coroners to decide whether a coronial inquiry should include an inquest
  • enabling coroners to issue written findings stating only the cause of death, and not the circumstances, if they considered that there was no public interest in making findings about the broader circumstances.

Consider making a submission about this, albeit late in the piece. I do honestly suspect though that your opinion will not feature too greatly in the decision making of those who are running this corporation. They’ve not been listening for a good while now.

RELATED: Utah’s Chief Medical Examiner says proving vaccine injury as a cause of death almost never happens

Photo: EnviroWatchRangitikei

If you do not want to see euthanasia legalized in NZ – you need to make a submission – date’s been extended (info & template included)

If you do not agree with euthanasia & do not want it legalized in NZ, you can go to the website below & make a submission. For more information on what is entailed with this Bill, read at the website. They’ve done a good comprehensive overview of the pertinent points and included info from other countries that have already enabled euthanasia.

From familyfirst.org.nz

The Select Committee considering David Seymour’s euthanasia bill (whose members interestingly ALL voted for euthanasia in the 1st Reading!) have set the deadline for submissions as soon as 20 February 2018. They seem to be hoping that you’ll be too distracted by the festive and holiday season to get around to making a submission against the bill. Let’s disappoint them!

So we’ve done all the ‘prep work’ for you.

https://www.familyfirst.org.nz/2017/12/euthanasia-its-time-to-make-a-submission-heres-all-the-info-you-need/

Prosecuted for Trespassing on his Own Land! “Disturbingly Medieval” Says Maori Owner in Lake Horowhenua Prosecution

Lake Horowhenua Trespass Prosecution “Disturbingly Medieval” Says Maori Owner

In New Zealand, this week’s Court of Appeal decision quashing the acquittal of an owner charged with trespassing on his own land is disturbingly medieval, according to the owner who will now be retried for the same offence thrown out by a district court judge last May.

Phil Taueki says he is not joking when he cites Magna Carta harking back to ancient times when the Crown could seize control of ancestral lands and imprison owners who refused to leave. Magna Carta became NZ law in 1989.

He says the original police prosecutor admitted there was no case to answer but he was under political pressure to proceed with this prosecution.

When this charge was dismissed, that should have been the end of it, he says.

But Crown Law appealed his acquittal even though there was no compelling new evidence or suggestion of a tainted acquittal.

It is disconcerting that Crown Law has hijacked this criminal case to evict owners from their own property, he says.

“There is even a statue of the man who stole our land in the grounds of Parliament”, Mr Taueki says.

“Anybody else who claimed there was an agreement would be laughed out of court if they could not produce a copy of that agreement,” he says. “But not Crown Law”.

Nevertheless in the High Court, Justice Ellis accepted there was an agreement and therefore the public had more rights than the owners on their own land.

Lake Horowhenua and the surrounding ancestral land has belonged to Mr Taueki and other members of his iwi since a certificate of title was issued in 1899.

Despite private ownership, within a few years Parliament had passed a law letting the public use the lake free of charge and placing it under the control of a Domain Board appointed by the Minister of Conservation.

In 1906, MP Tame Parata had called for the repeal of legislation passed without the approval of the owners.

Prior to Mr Taueki’s arrest, this Board banned all owners from entering their own buildings so that members of the local rowing club could occupy buildings the Board neither owns nor leases.

The Minister for Maori Development conceded two years ago that these arrangements would not be put in place today.

However Parliament has shown no inclination to repeal legislation that Mr Taueki describes as ‘theft by statute’.

READ MORE

For information on the history of Lake Horowhenua open or download the following pdf file:

Lake Horowhenua

Photo Credit: Wikimedia