Duke and Duchess of Suffolk new California Residence attracts global Media to High Court case in South Seas

Proceedings in the High Court of New Zealand between the representatives of a prominent Russian businessman resident in California and a Wellington legal publisher have caused what is being seen as a benchmark in the ability of journalists to protect the sources of their stories.

The burden of the case is that the Wellington publisher and journalist John Bowie has been ordered to pay substantial costs to the plaintiff’s representatives in New Zealand

There are several firms in New Zealand which have acted on behalf of the plaintiff in the case against Mr Bowie who runs an online legal topics news site.

The case has involved a number of issues from the complainant’s representatives. An outcome is that these amounted to the failure of Mr Bowie to disclose the identities of the sources of the information in the stories that he published in his online Lawfuel.

Mr Bowie has received instructions via the plaintiff’s representatives in New Zealand to make available to them his own personal computer and associated electronic storage devices.

These are the systems that may contain messages and other such correspondence between he and his sources involved in the stories cited in the High Court action.

The New York-based Overseas Press of America has notified its anxiety about the order and also its subsequent support for the National Press Club of New Zealand which took the matter to the country’s Law Commission.

In a development in the case it was emphasised that the costs against Mr Bowie were due to Mr Bowie’s own decision to withhold the sources of the information in the stories that he published in Lawfuel.

Also cited was Mr Bowie’s refusal to reveal to the plaintiff’s New Zealand representatives the identities of the individuals behind the assumed names in the by lines of articles that appeared in Lawfuel

This South Seas case might have remained largely unnoticed internationally had it not been for the unrelated sale of the plaintiff’s California residence to the re-locating royal couple the Duke and Duchess of Suffolk.

The property transaction coincidence involving the British royal couple known popularly as Harry and Meghan, pictured above in the film colony with their Montecito friend and neighbour, had the effect of drawing attention to proceedings in the High Court in Wellington.

This in turn now aroused a wider industry interest centred on the impact internationally of the security, the privacy, of the sources behind the stories of journalists everywhere.

In the last century New Zealand became renowned for the prominence internationally of its reporters and cartoonists. In this one it seems that the Oceania nation will be noted in the matter of access to story sources and authorship. See also-

Overseas Press Club of America:

National Press Club submissions received by the Law Commission re Sergey Grishin versus John Bowie in the High Court:

• National Press Club Inc.
• Alliance for Journalists Freedom
• Media Defence

Glasgow Extravaganza Tempts Climate Zealots to make ruinous pledges to United Nations

Politicians and their entourages converging on Glasgow for Cop26 threaten to pile additional economic handicaps on their countries as they showily compete with each other in displays of climate warming zealotry.

United Nations which is staging Cop26 will be the main beneficiary just because it diverts attention away from its own failure in regard to the real crisis, the pandemic, which it failed to intercept and then stonewalled in determining its origin.

Europe is facing an energy shortage due low fuel stockpiles following last winter, which was colder and longer than usual.

Neither will any questions be asked as to why British householders have discovered that a quarter of their power bill is comprised of a green levies surcharge

United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres the ring master for the gathering is already whipping up his audience by claiming that global warming is at an alarm of “fever pitch” crescendo.

This cry will not be taken up by independent power suppliers in the UK going out of business due to the shortage-induced skyrocketing wholesale power rates.

Neither will anyone at the UN feel it necessary to explain for example why as the pandemic, the one they failed to detect, gathered force they egged on such pious devotees as New Zealand at the start of 2020 to declare a distracting official climate emergency.

British prime minister Boris Johnson is a recent convert to the political trade secret that climate is the key to the vote of the electoral aristocracy.

With the hyperbole for which he is famous he likens the world to a perpetual thoughtless adolescent conveniently forgetting that London the city of which he was once mayor introduced the Clean Air Acts.

The platoon-sized delegation from New Zealand scheduled to attend the Glasgow convocation demonstrates the neo-religious brazen immunity attached to any association with the United Nations climate fervour.

At a time when families remain split and cannot unite because of tightly rationed quarantine accommodation there were no qualms about the extensive Glasgow entourage elbowing aside their distressed taxpayers in their own quest for the angelic limelight.

Boris Johnson’s customary bragging and bluster will overcome any reservations from these true believers as Britain enters another winter that may be colder than the last and with fill in energy supplies from Europe uncertain.

His presence at the Glasgow conference will add a new theatricality which is likely to evoke among participants an enhanced tendency to show-off by committing their countries to extreme self-sacrificial economic hobbling.

Already hit in the New Zealand Labour government’s determination to demonstrate to United Nations its climatic purity is the nation’s natural gas supply vital to home heating. Bovine production which underpins the export economy is another example.

Those at the conference are theorists who have never worked at wealth-building careers. Their task is one usually associated with mystics, fakirs, and instant cure peddlers. It is to persuade the voters back home, the ones paying for it, that the damage being inflicted on them is for their own good.

The winner is United Nations which is kept afloat by payments from these nations and about which the taxpayers so levied are told little.

Adding to the unreality of Cop26 is an acute shortage in the United Kingdom of carbon dioxide essential to such essentials as healthcare and food production.

One sideshow at Cop 26 is bound to be the New Zealand side ardently proving that it can out run in the climate stakes anything from newly nuclear Australia whose citizens may feel themselves on home turf due to the Glasgow Stock Exchange (above) site reminding them of the Sydney Opera House.

Retrofitting French Atomic Subs was a customisation too far

The new AUKUS military alliance concludes the most bizarre construction deal in modern military procurement, the one for Australia to retro re-equip French nuclear submarines with diesel engines.

The compromise was itself powered by the most high minded of moral objectives blended with the most practical of political imperatives. The moral objective was to protect Australia from anything nuclear. The political one was old fashioned electioneering based on keeping jobs there too.

What a difference a few years make. Five in the case of the backwardly compatible subs.

In 2016 the year the deal was signed with France many in Australia still hailed China for having “lifted” this was the word always used a substantial chunk of the world’s population “out of poverty.”

Neither was this belief confined to the politico media class. A year before in 2015 the Chinese-owned and aptly-named Landbridge Group won the bid for a 99 year lease of Port Darwin which happens to be Australia’s gateway to the Indo Pacific.

In 2018 the state of Victoria signed up with China’s Belt and Road scheme seen at the time and until it was abruptly cancelled by the Federal government as the very embodiment of political progressivism.

The retro conversion of the French nuclear submarines to internal combustion can be compared to re-powering diesel electric rail locomotives with coal-fired steam engines.

Until even months ago the problems of this 2016 deal for the re-engined French submarines were brushed under the carpet. The quaint arrangement eliminating anything nuclear kept Australia’s Labour Party at bay, and thus similarly the nation’s activist media which is nearly all of it.

The French always saw the problems in re-adapting their standard nuclear-powered submarine package and so insisted on a large order so they could obtain efficiency of scale for the extensive modifications.

Government consortia and private corporates tremble before altering, tampering, with standardised technology packages of any description. Customising a proven technology introduces a chain reaction in which a change somewhere distorts everything else, everywhere else.

This is why most acquirers of packaged, standardised technology, sensibly seek to mould and bend their own requirements around the technology package instead of the other way around.

The Australian 2016 submarine contract requiring the nuclear propulsion to be replaced by internal combustion engines turned the French standard package inside out.

This is because the original nuclear design meant that the submarine would remain operable at sea continuously until the crew food supplies ran out.

More important still the combustion engine propulsion would cancel out the nuclear submarine other great advantage, the one of silence.

Another danger of customising a standardised package is that it empowers the vendor to add costs.

The greater the degree of departure from the standard design, the greater the customisation and the greater the leverage in the hands of the vendor in this case the French government.

The French government owns most of the constructor Naval Group. It sought to compensate for customisation by insisting on a large flotilla of the modified submarines in order to achieve scale of production for the drastic hybridisation of its standard design model.

It was genuinely shocked when the entire somewhat dotty deal was abruptly cancelled. It was a rare example of a tightly-held trade/defence secret.

The French were lulled because nobody in any authority in Australia, or in any other western ally until very recently questioned the contract dogged as it so obviously was with the cost and delays caused by the customisation complications.

Not a whisper reached the French government with its vaunted foreign service, nor Thales the secondary shareholder of the constructor Naval Group, or even Naval’s own operational management.

Washington saw the problem. It now presented a clean deal, one that suited all parties including the British now put back in a position to resume a historical role in Australian heavy engineering.

The fury of France’s response indicates that no amount of penalties and damages will compensate for the abrupt contract termination.

China’s sabre rattling and the corresponding cutting through of the “lifted out of poverty” creed and its replacement by a practical appreciation of a threat is one explanation for the abrupt submarine contract upset.

Another is that the sudden sub announcement was itself a diversion from the impression of the messy withdrawal from Afghanistan. Itself an example of the confusion when political expediency laced with ideological distractions intrude on military planning.

The US-led Anglo Australian submarine strategy cut through a defence dreamtime.

National Leader Caustic comments on Covid Clinicians cracked media indifference

Microbiologist Dr Siouxsie Wiles presented Judith Collins with one of the very few high value targets available to the leader of the Opposition. Mrs Collins let fly with her “big fat hypocrite” missile after someone dobbed in the New Zealander of the Year for being away from home at the beach. And not wearing a mask.

Judith Collins targeted Dr Siouxsie Wiles (https://www.mscnewswire.co.nz/page2/item/19280-phillida-perry-s-siouxsie-the-virus-documents-dr-wiles-catching-mass-resentment-for-covid-containment.html) only a few weeks after taking a swipe at Dr Ashley Bloomfield the nation’s director general of health.

Mrs Collins lashed out at the duo because strange as it seems she knew that she could do so without alienating National Party support. They are both Eurocentric tall poppies. Professionals who can be taken down a peg or two without alienating cultural sensitivities.

Politically Mrs Collins is trapped by the culture wars. The most obvious example of the way in which she is manacled is in telling the National Party rural base what it wants to hear.

If she declares that New Zealand’s allegiance to net zero will not make a jot of difference to the climate but will wreck the economy then she wins the farmers. But she loses the urban liberals.

If she strides forth on law and order (gangs) she reinforces her productive sector base. But loses urban professionals (inclusivity.)

Should Mrs Collins wade into immigration on the grounds of a disconcerting benefit-of-the-doubt attitude relating to deporting the manifestly lethal then she again sloughs off this same urban constituency (social justice.)

Mrs Collins is in search of the 300,000 missing National Party votes, the ones that went AWOL at the last general election.

Within the National Party there are various explanations. One is that the rural vote evaporated as farmers went Labour with both their two votes just to eliminate the threat of the Greens.

The other reason is rather more sensitive and somehow more convincing. It is what is known within the National Party as the “Remuera doctors and lawyers wives” vote.

It holds that a household combined vote no longer exists and that one of the householders went Labour or Green, quietly.

Mrs Collins indicated as much at her earlier collective swipe at Dr Bloomfield and former prime minister Helen Clark on the grounds of a proximity to United Nations which Ms Clark once served and then sought to lead as secretary-general.

Mrs Collins knows that the Labour government is wedded to United Nations ideologies.

But she dare not say so because of the Remuera Effect with its many invisible UN devotees (globalism).

Siouxsie Wiles (pictured above by Arvid Eriksson) presents an everywoman persona. Her recognisable and polychromatic aspect removes the kind of gulf so often associated with highly qualified clinicians tasked with informing the general public about the unpleasant.

Much the same thing can be said of the outwardly more staid and conventional Dr Bloomfield in aspect the embodiment of the traditional public servant.

His only visible blend with Labour government doctrine is his willingness to advance the cause of the Maori language (diversity) notably in matters of correct delivery such as with the new name for Auckland.

In his public update broadcast duets with prime minister Jacinda Ardern he correctly renders Tamaki Makerau with the last syllable pronounced as in meow instead of it sounding like cow or toe the usual rendering.

Mrs Collins outbursts directed at the two clinicians seemed to be both petulant and waspish. She knew though that they would be much reported and that they would demonstrate that she would not be intimidated by them and certainly not by their face-value good intentions.

She thus challenged the government’s lock downs and other Covid tactics obliquely, indirectly.

Of all the parties National has taken the biggest beating in the culture wars. Its few media friends able to render on-the-ground support have tended to find themselves subjected to cancellation.

Mrs Collins targeting of the two clinicians at last raised her above the noise level.

Key officials distance themselves from assumption-laden project lacking surprise, deception, contingency

The Kabul evacuation shows hallmarks of a very large scale endeavour that veered sharply onto an unanticipated course. The most obvious sign is that nobody wants to be responsible for it, or own it. This was demonstrated by key people being on holiday at the time.

This distancing from a dodgy project was also evident in the absence of any geographical central point of control such as a situation room.

A common factor in all very large scale debacles is that of the creeping assumption. There is growing evidence that project component members of the Kabul evacuation assumed that other component member groups were effective when we can now see that they were not.

An overriding ingredient to a failed large scale project is that those responsible for its execution refused to carry bad news all the way to the top. The vulnerability of the county-size Kabul city airport is one example here. It was inadequate to the task.

Very large scale projects that go off-course are prone to a self-infused sense of optimism which tends to grow with the importance of the project and which continue through to testing. The belief, one based solely on hope, that the Taliban would cooperate with the evacuation timetable remains the outstanding example.

At some stage very large projects become prone to a distraction. In the private sector this is often due to government intervention in some form. In this instance the government provided its own distraction to its own project.

The round robin collective letter to the US Administration from retired flag officers points out the “divisive” effect of what amounted to the ill-timed launch of what it described as a “wokist” agenda.

Distancing became the trade mark of the evacuation. We can see now how those in nominal control of events placed themselves in the position in which if it worked, they could claim the plaudits. If it didn’t, then their operational connection with events would be seen as tenuous enough to deflect collecting the blame.

They had good reason for ambivalence. The evacuation lacked the two essentials of any military process of any size at all. These are surprise and deception. These two tactical aces were left exclusively to the Taliban to implement as strategies.

Contingency increasingly looks as if was missing too. So was simple office-grade information technology which should have used Afghanistan’s relatively advanced telecommunications network in a pre-planned evacuation roster notification process.

An example of such a standard public point-to-multipoint phased process is the vaccination notification roster used now in NATO countries.

A quarter of Afghans were routine cell phone users and these were exactly the interpreters and other officials who needed to be on such a critical roster alert, one that chimed with a pre-planned flight schedule. No such basic coordinated IT alerting system seems to have been used.

In management terms the US-led NATO operation was a consortium. Information sharing was a pre-requisite and as it turned out incredibly all-embracing in that it in corporate terms it was shared also and intentionally with the enemy the Taliban, the competition.

We are now routinely reminded that all the abandoned NATO heavy duty aircraft have been rendered unusable.

Might not these have been instead just as easily folded into a coordinated evacuation procedure and simply flown to one of the in-range NATO friendly countries complete with passengers, evacuees?

Official statements have similarly focussed on the beyond-repair abandoned wheeled and tracked terrestrial vehicles. This emphasis on heavy armour obscures the much greater value to the insurgents of lighter, very useable, and much more mobile and thus much more useful spoils of war.

This includes NATO’s Thales interoperable radios and Pilkington night vision equipment (pictured.).

NATO’s failure to blow its dumps can be tied to NATO’s failure to act on its own intelligence. Even if this was realistic in its interpretation of what was likely to happen it re-emerged operationally in corporate marketing format as a politicised message of hope characterised by the military evacuating itself first instead of last.

Neither can the evacuation be compared to Saigon. Then the timetable, the initiative, was in the hands of the enemy in Hanoi which forced it on South Vietnam..

In Kabul in contrast setting the timetable was in the hands of the defenders in the form of the US-led NATO alliance.

The United States reputation for method and order rested on its ability to bring to bear on any operation a concentrated array of specialist manpower and their accompanying technology.

The Afghanistan experience indicates that it can no longer do this and that its allies are going to have to factor this realisation into joint operations.

The dissenting retired military brass in their critique probably come closest to the explanation in blaming the affair on deliberately divisive doctrines prioritising the very disunity of purpose that became so evident in the evacuation of Afghanistan.

It was Only Concussion diagnosis dogs brutal nation building team sport

Like a storm cloud gathering over a grandstand long dated football injuries liability looms over the professional contact sport.

Professional personal injury sports liability is the last taboo. It is literally too painful to contemplate.

This threatening cloud began in the United Kingdom with a group claim on behalf of 40 retired professional football, soccer version, players all said to be victims of early onset dementia, suddenly turned ominous also in the football, rugby version.

It emerged that well over 100 former professional rugby players were going down the same litigation claim route and for the same reason. That of early onset dementia.

Still more ominous was the indication from lawyers acting on behalf of these groups to the effect that it was probable that 50 percent of former professional rugby players suffer with dementia.

Professionalization of rugby football placed the game in a corporate framework in which players became employees.

The already intense nature of the sport accelerated and so did the phrase on the contemplation of a star groggy player that he was all right because “he’s only got concussion.”

Professionalization also drew into its slipstream a number of other elements that made rugby players increasingly prone to injury and especially to head injuries.

In the amateur era players had another job to go to, farming is the obvious example, and so could quit the game early if they wanted to.

In the new professional era players with no family business or skill or career to fall back on are compelled to keep on playing an increasingly physically dangerous game for as long as they can stay employed.

One reason that all this has been muted in New Zealand is the Accident Compensation Claims Act which precludes suing for damages over personal injury. A maturing flood of rugby claims on the Accident Compensation Commission will be carried by the community at large.

The class actions brought by lawyers elsewhere is based on the tort of negligence. The claims allege that reasonable care was not taken by the responsible governing bodies to protect players from reasonably preventable brain injuries sustained as a result of concussion.

Pending rugby injury legal actions in the UK evaluate whether rules and strategies imposed were sufficient to protect players against concussion incidents and whether those same rules and strategies were also implemented to allow players the time needed to recover from concussion incidents.

The growth of British class actions is having a snowball effect in the case of the rugby internationals diagnosed with early signs dementia. Lawyers involved say a further 80 former players ranging in age between 25 and 55 also show early signs of dementia.

The gathering litigation momentum in the UK will also embrace the sports medicine fraternity and especially so in the team doctor role in return-to-play decisions.

Clinicians tend to avoid the word concussion, preferring to describe it in terms of brain injury, trauma, and perhaps because of this the word concussion does not generate the sense of alarm it once did.

Before the introduction of seat belts and air bags concussion was a feared outcome of any vehicle collision just because it was not obvious. Those involved in sudden head impacts with steering wheels, dashboards and windscreens were kept under close observation for days after the impact.

So coincident with the advent of the professionalization of rugby football the generalised public fear of concussion began to recede as a threat to anyone involved in any head injury at all and this was especially so on the sports field.

Only in quite recent times has concussion as a trauma re-entered the public medical consciousness and it has done so in concert with the wider perception of dementia and its early onset.

A reason for the scheme of putting rugby management and proprietorship in the hands of a United States-bases corporate entity is that professional sports injuries claims processes began in the United States and so management there has the experience to deal with them.

The matter of an essentially amateur organisation being responsible for a professional sport is one that few wished to confront even though professionalism meant increasingly violent jolting among players who now also started to become much bulkier as the pressure came on them to win.

Many are perplexed by the popularity in this era of gender fluidity of collision sports at a time of the swelling sensitivity and debate on the cult of exaggerated masculinity. The clamour for bigger, and still more capacious publicly-funded stadiums the better to view the spectacle underlines its ancient ritual origins and thus its immunity from gyrating trends, however pervasive they seem at the time.

In Commonwealth nations such as South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand rugby football enjoys a priority institutional status based on its role in social cohesion.

Islamists understood that professed horror of imperialism was priority among posturing virtue influencers

The Taliban understood the total preoccupation of United States influencers with their need to exhibit a revulsion for colonialism and imperialism. The Taliban knew that given this constantly-expressed righteousness they would be believed in any undertakings they gave over the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan.

They knew that the political class requirement to display at any opportunity at all this contempt for a colonial past outweighed other contemporary human rights attitudes, most notably even those centred on women, and especially their education.

It was hardly even a coincidence that just prior to the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan that its military high command had itself become preoccupied and thus diverted by issues such whether or not teachings as critical race theory should be integrated into career training.

Overlooked remains the way in which the Taliban exploited the United States cultural class guilt about a perceived colonial history by using it as a psychological weapon to erode confidence in the US presence in Afghanistan as an occupying power i.e. neo-coloniser.

It managed to place in the New York Times a produced piece claiming that really the Taliban only wanted to be like everyone else. It was perhaps the greatest propaganda coup in wartime history. Yet the way in which it revealed the Taliban mastery of the United States invented pr techniques went unobserved.

Whole countries, part of the US-led occupying coalition, now became conflicted about the conflict.

None more so than Australia, an immigrant nation and one much more recently colonised than the United States and with a proportionately even greater imperialist remorse industry.

Here an attenuated government inquiry into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan has become part of the rhythm of public life. It flares up now and then into wider consciousness over things like campaign medals and official public notices designating appropriate counselling services.

The effect of the Taliban in adapting modern spin techniques against the inventors and exponents of those same techniques is itself an adaptation of the exercise of eastern martial arts.

It is that of using as a weapon against an opponent the very strength superiority possessed by that opponent.

Indications keep growing that United States officials believed that the withdrawal would be an orderly one.

Why were US coalition listening posts closed down prior to the withdrawal? Ever since the imperial era of the Romans the dangers of being ignorant of what is going on beyond your own front lines has been understood.

There remains the worry for the United States and also for its allies, especially those in the Five Eyes category, as to how there appeared to be this conviction that a scheduled withdrawal from Afghanistan was going to be measured in months rather than days.

Can this horrifying miscalculation be sheeted home perhaps to Centcom? What about the CIA whose hand has sometimes been less than sure in tribal societies? What about the NSA? Then of course where were the already distracted Joint Chiefs?

What remains though is the way in which the notion of an orderly withdrawal permeated from the Oval Office all the way through to an already distracted allied coalition.

Why was the Taliban so certain that the US and its occupying coalition would believe what the Taliban told them?

There are already indications that the US administration in raptures of post imperialism ideology was as part of a scheduled withdrawal contemplating aid packages of the type afforded to Germany after World War 2.

History in the region is rather more severe. When Islamists command a country they do so under Sharia, a methodology always deadly to the western interpretation of human rights.

The Taliban effectively sowed confusion in the United States. It did so by applying pr techniques to lever on the need, the craving, of opinion-formulating society elites there to politicise its abhorrence of colonialism, and do so demonstrably.

The Taliban understood also that this moral requirement, an historical one, trumped (it is the only word) other face value seemingly superior imperatives such as those centred on free speech, womens rights, and gender classifications.

How did they achieve such an insight into this mind set? Then understand how to apply it?

A clue is contained in the Taliban New York Times placement coup.

Public relations, spin, are component elements of marketing.

In marketing an enduring rule is to tell the target audience what you believe that it wants to hear.

Winston Churchill Cancelled in big chill-induced doctrinal diversions

The iron grip that United Nations has on the body politic became evident in the aftermath of the coldest day in New Zealand’s year during which there were widespread power failures, outages.

These were caused by power shortages. But attention instead was focussed on the IPCC report centred on global warming.

The government’s own broadcasting channel TV 1 sidelined both the coldest day and the ensuing power cuts to give a triumphant priority to the IPCC report on global warming.

In the ensuing debate in the nation’s parliament politicians of all stripe dodged the freeze and power cuts and competed among themselves in bestowing the most flowery speeches on the nation’s athletes who competed in the Japan Olympic s.

The United Nations doctrines so ardently and so unchallenged under the omnibus climatic banner were then capped by news that the nation’s Green Party had cancelled Winston Churchill. His portrait was unhooked from the parliamentary portrait gallery.

The United Nations syndrome in New Zealand and its success has much to do with applying a civil service bureaucratic theory to the effect that consistent failure and misguidedness is a more successful survival technique than a continuous display of efficiency which may frighten people.

This syndrome became evident when the Opposition National Party seeking to find a hole in the Labour-Green ruling parties turned on the individual most responsible for managing the nation’s evasion of all but a fringe contamination from Covid-19

Dr Ashley Bloomfield, the nation’s chief health official, was described as a showboater by the National Party Opposition leader after he became drawn into some United Nations-inspired boondoggling involving Oceania quarantine preference. The director general of health Ashley Bloomfield was described by the National Party’s Judith Collins as a “one trick pony.”

It was clinician Dr Bloomfield who masterminded the nation’s initial Covid cluster infection track and trace operations that deftly isolated the nation from any serious infection outbreak, an outbreak which internationally United Nations agencies should have intercepted

United Nations in New Zealand enjoys a sanctity and untouchability that was once conferred only upon the Vatican.

Advocates are well placed. Former prime minister Helen Clark who was unsuccessful in her campaign to become secretary general of United Nations is one. She is the mentor of the current prime minister Jacinda Ardern who is sometimes said to be a prospective candidate-in-waiting for the same job.

What also froze was the voices of the officials and the institutions in identifying the cause of the outage which was the unquestioned adherence to the United Nations climate warming doctrine.

Paralysed still are voices that might dwell on why, for example, China responsible for more emissions than the entire OECD put together is not bound by the United Nations doctrine even though it was a founder of United Nations

Instead, there is murmuring about it being a “developing” nation, albeit one that Western defence strategists point out is a nation that could emerge victorious in any conflict with some of its fellow UN members such as the United States, and indeed the whole of NATO.

To what extent did the United Nations hysterical focus on climate divert and distract constituted governing authorities everywhere from the true evolving crisis/emergency, the pandemic?

United Nations like the old bureaucratic monolith it is knows the dangers of being seen to back down on anything. So it continues to pour out alarm on the climate and encourages its many acolytes in places like New Zealand to insist on giving climate priority over plague, the real crisis, the one it only discovered at the same time as everyone else.

United Nations failings started to become evident in its core business of peace keeping in places like Rwanda and the Balkans.

Its spectacular failure in being caught off guard by the pandemic has by a stroke of bureaucratic genius been turned into a triumph. Thus it convinces small countries such as New Zealand and its politicians that this blunder was in fact a godsend in that it will build a world less prone to the climate emergency/crisis/extinction.

Immediately after the coldest-day and concurrent power cuts, United Nations indoctrinated acolytes in New Zealand instantly and unknowingly delivered a slick cover up set-piece in turning UN bungling into brilliance.

The pandemic it was widely announced through channels available to the government, which is most of them, had delivered a signal advantage. It had reduced the nation’s “emissions.”

New Zealand’s emissions in UN climatic terms are said to be somewhere between 0.2 and 0.17 percent. A miniscule fraction in other words.

Here though is the centrepiece of United Nations slickness which is use of selective data. New Zealand, a sparsely populated country, is UN disciples declare a polluting threat on a per-head basis.

How did United Nations become the policy high altar for a country such as New Zealand? How did it become a shining city on a hill for so many in a position of power, causing them to suspend any critical judgment?

Why does it inspire such fear and trembling and general paralysis among those charged with holding bureaucracies to account and however gigantic they are?

Te Aute spirit of excellence through individualism swamped in Reverse Discrimination policies

A political emphasis on retribalizing now focuses on New Zealand’s gangs in a country with more enrolled gang members than members of its military.

The nation’s gangs are accorded immense social license and are handled with velvet gloves by officialdom. Yet it wasn’t always like that. The problem was originally foreseen as long ago as 1854.

Te Aute College (pictured in early days) opened that year with the express purpose of ensuring that there would always be in existence a Maori professional class comprised of medical doctors, lawyers, and clergy.

In 1883 a government native schools inspector confirmed in their report that Te Aute was meeting this objective and noted its accomplishments in mathematics and science specifically.

Among the first to comprehend how seriously off-course this strategy had drifted away from this was the head of the Maori Council, the late Sir Graham Latimer, a farmer. In the 1970s he sought to re-capture this Te Aute approach which in today’s terms would be described as one of excellence by example.

He instituted now a scheme in which accomplishment was showcased in every walk of life, and notably in the enterprise sector. Today, this would be known as putting forward avatars, winners.

This strenuous scheme was now copied by the government which launched its own programme and which had the effect of accelerating the exact drift that Sir Graham Latimer sought to stem. This was to stop the government becoming the catch-all job provider.

Sir Graham understood as did the founders of Te Aute College that the future of his people standing tall in relation to Europeans was to ensure a strong representation in the great professions, and as the 1970s dawned in free enterprise business leadership too.

Sir Graham we can see now was the last authority figure with the clout, the mana, to seek to adjust the Maori way of life to the European one.

After this, there would be dominating an academic-departmental move to do the opposite.

It was to adjust the European modus operandi to appease the separatists.

The emergence of the gang system, predominantly Maori, but not entirely, is the ever-present testimony to the failure of good intentions. Official measures now fed the flames of tribalism.

Some measures were accidental such as the decision to replace the nation’s highway patrol motor bikes with models made in Japan which gave the gangs easy access to their preferred hardware. This was in the form of the now discarded British Norton 650s which flooding the market overnight transitioned from being instruments of law enforcement to symbols of law flouting.

Politically the gangs enjoy a constant resonance covered by the much enunciated doctrines of inclusion, diversity, and of course multiculturalism.

In their more threatening anti-social manifestations gangs draw forth from authority figures vows to draft laws designed to put them out of business. The laws have long existed. But the gangs by experience believe themselves exempt.

A seemingly matter-of-fact series of recent edicts by the Labour government to placate the gangs has had the surprising effect of drawing instead of anticipated if muted approval quite the opposite reaction.

These followed the revelation that unworldly if well-intentioned officialdom in the race relations industry were in the habit of depositing symbolic cash gifts when they attended in the course of their duties the various gang convocations.

First off the launching ramp was a scheme to give enterprises demonstrating Maori involvement preferential access to government contracts.

Now came the announcement of direct government payments to gangs running their own anti drug addiction and health collectives.

Complexions often obliterated by tattoos, clad in emblazoned villainous regalia and astride their unsilenced heavy capacity bikes the blokes-only gangs know they project a volatile mix of menace, unpredictability, and instability.

During the 1950s there developed a mood that time would diminish any tribal hostility and in practical terms would be accomplished by inter-marriage, a concept much illustrated at the time by two merging circles, demonstrating the convergence of the bloodlines.

What also happened was that far from accomplishing “assimilation” the word used in this optimistic era to describe this process, more and more routinely identified as themselves as Maori, and thus came under government head start policies designed for the indigenous.

Sir Graham Latimer and his lieutenant of that era Maori Council secretary Kereana Anihana also foresaw the problem so evident today of a media cushioning with a coating of romanticism of the reality of the gangs.

A visitor to the Maori Council secretary’s office in the 1970s was surprised to find Mr Anihana with his head in his hands.

“I can’t bear to see the television cameras doing so much damage to my people,” he explained to his visitor.

Royal Embodiment of Opposing Cults is a Dilemma for Commonwealth Commentariat

In the person of Prince Charles resides for activists the opposing poles of their group ideology. He towers over the climate movement. He is the beacon of inherited white privilege. Prince Charles actively took up the umbrella cause of climate long before most progressives realised that it was even a cause in the first place.

This conflict becomes visually evident in public television. Here the words “climate change” are rendered with a look of pious pleading. A few segments later Prince Charles’ name pops up and is accompanied by a look of “does he matter anymore?”

The activist commentariat has a split focus between reverence for the climate cult and a cultivated disdain for the individual who has done most to cause it to happen, Prince Charles.

There is the belief that Charles does not wish to be king. Wrong. He has always been utterly straightforward in letting it be known that he expects to shoulder the Crown, and wants to do so.

Sheltering collectively under the all-embracing climate cult the anti white privilege modernists are painfully coming to terms with the fact that their standard-bearer is the heir apparent and who dived more completely into their climate movement than most of them still dare to do.

Nobody personifies this contradiction more than former Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull.

He built his power base on republicanism, condemned the monarchy. Then he sought to cement himself into office through climatism. He now seeks to maintain both ideologies concurrently.

One ideology sustains climate as the umbrella cause of our times. The other, the twinned monarchy white privilege consciousness movement, seeks to cancel Prince Charles who more than any other living person has by example led the climate crusade.

The contradiction is that the man who will be king, the heir apparent Prince Charles,(pictured above with Davos associate) embodies Climate.

Climate is the overarching doctrine of the contemporary modernity movement which simultaneously seeks to eliminate Charles and everything he stands for which means….wait for it….Climatism.

Climate is the underpinning of the New Zealand political doctrine, even surpassing the diversity one.

In the event anti monarchism cum anti white privilege clashes with the diversity push symbolised by the constantly iterated emphasis on Maori rights.

Maori rights are enshrined by the Treaty of Waitangi, an historic agreement between Maori chiefs and the British Crown. No Crown. No Treaty.

The ideological production process line for this jarring contradiction is an extended geographical one.

The progressive ideology is itself esoteric and originates in the West and East coastal enclaves of the United States and then migrates across the Atlantic.

In its various transmitted belief forms it makes landfall at the Guardian. Here the raw content is re-packaged into softer quizzical ideological versions crafted for Commonwealth consumption.

The BBC picks it up and in doing so gives it the imprimatur of the received wisdom, the ideological equivalent of the Stamp of Good Housekeeping.

It now gets swiftly relayed to other Commonwealth government broadcasters in Australia and also New Zealand where presenters for example are encouraged to give the nation their own favoured replacement name which is Aotearoa.

Back now to Prince Charles, the great Re-setter in Chief and who discovered climate long before it became an emergency or even a crisis.

This princely ecologist was a victim of a real emergency-crisis and one that could have led to his own extinction. He became infected with Covid-19.

White privilege was not enough to protect the Prince. Now himself a bona fide victim in a victim culture did the Prince of Wales whine or even mention this ill-fortune?

He did not, simply using his plight as a springboard for advocating a natural alternative approach to diseases. Yoga he proclaimed was an ideal recovery path for Covid victims.

The cultural elites which now guide public broadcasting do so through propagating the belief that they were there first as an ecological conscience. Actually Charles was, pumping out simultaneously the heritage message along with the natural cures one too.

Redeemers such as Malcolm Turnbull and his cohorts of co-believers to whom climate means colonising the popular conscience are now themselves Guardians of a covert question.

It is this. Does Prince Charles the pioneer climatist cancel out the other Prince Charles, the one of inherited white privilege?

In the bracketed yet seemingly irreconcilable twin cultures of climate and white privilege HRH is both foe and friend to the progressives and thus for them cancels himself out.