Ardern claims the inflation underpinning massive cost increases for the man in the street is driven by “overseas influences”. What she doesn’t say is that the ideas driving those overseas influences are the same ideas that are guiding her governance of New Zealand. At the core of our cost of living crisis is the global shift to “renewable” energy sources,

“The Fourth Estate” is a term that acknowledges the big part media plays in democratic govt. NZ media of course plays that part fully, however its not helpful to democracy when the greater majority of so called journalists or reporters are welded to neo-Marxist or progressive political ideas. Almost every question they ask of our politicians can be paraphrased as

Seldom correspond with the MSM, (you can’t fix stupid) but sent this email off this morning after yet another intolerable pro-govt propaganda session from Mr Campbell. Of course the anti-propaganda message doesn’t apply to John Campbell only. It applies to practically all of the so called media in NZ.  Mr Campbell, I watched your interview with Stephen Judd. It followed

The adage above has been proved true on so many occasions, and not the least in South America right now where various collapsing and corrupt socialist regimes are grimly hanging onto power. Will we face a similar crisis in New Zealand? After what we witnessed on the forecourt of Parliament yesterday, with Police shooting rubber bullets at citizens who just

A friend of mine is at the Wellington protests. She wrote this article to describe the reality of life within the protest area, and to counter the unending lies of the MSM. I’ll admit, I had no idea what to expect as I packed my car and set off, leaving my father in charge of everything at home. I alternated

Ardern says she felt “despair” at the news of Russia’s Ukraine invasion. She more likely did one of her little dances of glee, for if ever she needed a political diversion, she needs it now. Under pressure on vaccine mandates, rising poverty, inflation and debt, Three Waters and He Puapua (separate Maori government) Putin’s adventure in the Ukraine was a

Its gone far too far. New Zealand is meant to be a developed pluralist democracy, but it is looking more like some tin pot dictatorship every day. A banana republic with a corrupt media groveling to a gross and shamelessly deceitful leader. A circumstance such as you might find in the deep reaches of Africa fifty years ago. The protest

“Hold the line” is an important aphorism of the Freedom Protesters in Wellington, and bless them and their courage for this resolution, but they should not forget another aphorism of similar importance and that is “stay the course”. Recent moves to alter their original stance and offer olive branches to a deceitful media that has pilloried the protesters from the

On Friday almost 30 Wellington so called ‘leaders” issued an open letter to the Freedom Protesters at parliament house asking them to end their “illegal” protest. The opening sentence of the letter reads We the undersigned ask that the current illegal protest activities in and around the Parliament precinct end immediately.  and it ends with this statement- The people of

The Ardern regime claims to have public support for the methods they are using to try and shut down Freedom Protests across New Zealand. The protesters are “just a fringe minority who have no popular support” they sneer. Maybe that is true to some extent. Many NZers still get their news from the legacy media and they’re a fair proportion

We all laughed at Ardern’s opening shot in the propaganda war to discredit the freedom protests. She claimed they were “imported”. Its true in a way. New Zealand is joining the rest of the world, in tearing down the wall of lies that “progressive” governments across the globe have built around truth. That wall is about to crumble just as

Its an “unlawful” protest scream the left. “Shut it down!” Pretty much as the Stasi and its supporters screamed in East Germany as crowds formed to tear down the Berlin wall. (1989) Leaving aside the left’s sudden onset of selective morality, its notable that protests against tyrannical govts seldom fit with what those govts would describe as lawful. Tiananmen square

Canada’s opposition Conservative party has come out strongly in support of the protesting truckers, and entered a motion into parliament to end Justin Trudeau’s vaccine mandates. If you were expecting the NZ National party to show similar courage and political acumen, you’re right out of luck. Chris Luxon held a press conference this afternoon where his rhetoric on the protesters

Eureka! Apparently David Seymour has suddenly discovered there are sources of information outside NZ’s mainstream media. The goofy ACT leader issued a press release today that included the following paragraph- “Evidence from the UK is now showing tested infection rates twice as high for vaccinated as unvaccinated. If vaccination does not affect transmission of Omicron, then what is the justification

You are probably very mistrustful of the media already, but do you know just what depths they can sink to to? Here’s a perfect example of how they slyly deceive. TV One has been doing its best to destroy the credibility of the Wellington protesters. On Thursday they ran an item on the six o clock news centered on claims

The collective of Jacinda acolytes propagating a coordinated stream of lies to the NZ public about the anti-mandate Freedom Protest don’t really deserve to be called media. We call them that today only because its a convenient collective term for what is essentially a band of group think deceivers. Fake newsers who all signed on to publish Pravda style govt

Its not fair or accurate to say that the Association of Consumers and Taxpayers (ACT) is a complete waste of everyone’s time. They do have some good ideas and in spite of their wokeism, they also have some of the best people in parliament. (not saying much) ACT’s problem is their inconsistency in that they shy away from matters they

Events in Canadian politics last week have delivered a message to the New Zealand National party and they should heed it well. Opposition party leader Erin O’Toole lost this job when the Conservatives finally worked out he was not the “True Blue Conservative” he had made himself out to be, but a weak liberal imposter. The Canadian opposition is not

Two days ago a NZ MSM employee tweeted her dissatisfaction at the NZ public’s criticism of journalists. Responses to this complaint were numerous, and in many instances they referred to the media’s failure to report on the huge and momentous Canadian truckers’ protest against Covid19 vaccination mandates. Perhaps these complaints (along with so many others on blogs and social media)

The New Zealand media is a confederation of left wing liars. TV One’s failure to report on anti-mandate protests by Canadian truckers is the most stark example of this dishonesty. It illustrates media’s willingness to manipulate to the advantage of the Ardern govt those NZ citizens who still inexplicably trust them. Way back in September 2020 Labour supporting Otago University

Maybe its too early to say, but National’s “new” leader is so far looking very much like a Todd Muller retread. If you were anxious to discover what Chris Luxon wants to do with the party he now leads, you might have spent time over the Christmas New Year break studying the dozens of long form interviews he has done

News that the BFD blog and its customers and commenters are under police “surveillance” should not come as a surprise. Like most of our public institutions, Police in NZ have been politicized for some time, but especially so since “Cuddles” Coster became Commissioner. As many have already pointed out, the issue here is not the BFD. The police documents released

A core principle of journalism is a willingness to protect the weak from the powerful, and to always hold those in power to account. When journalists start working for the powerful, they forfeit their right to be called such, and are no longer part of that profession. They become propagandists. Unfortunately, most journalists today fall into this category. At the

National die-hards are flat out cheering for their “renewed” party, and who can blame them? Of course Christopher Luxon would make a “better” PM than Jacinda Ardern. Of course National would form a “better” government than Labour. However the reality is National has been taken over by a group of politically naïve liberals, (with the possible exception of Simon Bridges)

The demise of the National Party in its current format is long overdue, and all we can hope for now is that recent events hasten badly needed reform. This week’s sequence of catastrophes was set in motion Monday when Tova O’Brien interviewed Simon Bridges on his leadership aspirations. (see video below) Ms O’Brien has hated Judith Collins for a long