It's not good to be back, it's good to be away

Reflections on the woke Pacific

God I'm glad to be away from New Zealand. There isn't newsmedia anywhere else that could do this while the reporters, and the subjects of their 'reportage', remain so fucking proud of themselves with zero, zero, zero justification.

Woke stuff

And they're all stacked together too, the feature of the webpage which is Stuff the main owner of the newspapers in Wellington and Christchurch small cities on a worldwide scale but NZ's 2nd and third largest cities (in no particular order). Stuff was "formerly owned" by Fairfax and is now supposedly owned by one woman (she's a strawwomen).

Anyway let's get onto the first one, the cartoon. There isn't a cartoonist on the media payroll in NZ who doesn't talk up the Government and talk down the opposition all the time. There's no subtlety, anti-Government cartoons don't get printed and pro opposition cartoons don't ever see the light of day. They are really bad and in my view Sharon Murdoch is by far the worst. But this is Jeff Bell, I know him not. The context is that one of the steel producers has decided to use electricity rather than coal. It's not a terribly hard decision in hydro dominated New Zealand where we now import our coal due to other WEF policies implemented by this Labour Government so there's likely zero climate content in the decision from the Steel side. But there are chances for the Government (who are sponsoring this move, what a lark for the Steel producer) to virtue signal. What is not said is that it's very likely the steel plant being in South Auckland rather than Southland (where the hydro is) will use coalfired electricity from Huntly power station which is nearby. But every chance to talk up this Labour Government must be taken even if the facts are directly contradictory to the claims.

What a deal Labour must have done with the captains of industry in this country for them to pick them over the NZ Tories or National Party as they're otherwise known, their traditional allies. Also Jeff don't look up the meaning of fascism will you, it might look familiar (like looking in the mirror style of familiar).

Grow some gonads Jeff.

Next up we have Georgina Stewart who has a moko (facial tattoo) and she looks very happy with herself she does. For the interested (obviously if that's you you're not a New Zealander) Mokos in Maori culture are supposed to be the preserve of Maori men so she might be virtue signalling but it's Pakeha (a complex word but it basically means ‘not Maori’) virtue signalling to Pakeha. Georgina the Professor states that "The tiny percentage of working scientists who identify as Māori has been concerning various stakeholders for many years.". Stakeholders Georgina? Yes stakeholders, the chief scientist a role that is relatively new but has never been held by a Maori. Both holders so far have been controversial though and are deeply embedded in woke, one as an organizer and one as an implementer. The other link is to an Auckland University controlled (and supposedly Maori) organization whose two directors are both non-Maori. She then blames the lack of Maori scientists on ethnic wealth disparities. For sure this used to be the case but I think that in the upper middle classes it is unlikely to still be the case. But Georgina kicks down with pronouns rather than take aim at herself or her colleagues. You are the problem Georgina.

And the state of science today, do we really want to continue to make it worse by combining Maori religion (ask the 19th C British priests about that one). Georgina is all over it on the wrong side of this one.

https://academics.aut.ac.nz/georgina.stewart/publications

Go to hell Georgina.

The next story has a really eye rolling title "yoga is about resisting the patriarchy". Open it up and you are immediately struck by what looks like the yoga patriarchy". But they're brown I guess. Nevertheless the writer is not happy with all brown people so although it is good to see someone other than whites being laid into I don't think bringing the problems of India in "The risk I see in that is that it relies on a small category of people who could predominantly be oppressor caste Hindus" to New Zealand is a great idea. It is already well enough represented by the creep that is currently Young New Zealander of the Year.

Leave your class antagonisms behind Nayantara, it won't solve anything.

Oh and we've heard a lot about how China was responsible for a virus that doesn't exist quite a lot. But what has India been getting up to?

Anyway Luke Malpas then does something not often done in New Zealand journalism. He wrote a story instead of propaganda. So he's the odd one out here. Read the story instead of my sarcasm if you prefer, it gives a reasonable break down of one part of where we are now as a country and how the Labour Government is getting ripped off by the (overseas owned) Corporates. He almost calls it what it is, State sponsored fascism.

More of that Luke.

Finally we have Siouxsie Wiles who needs no introduction to NZrs for her last few years of sales repping for Pfizer. The less said about this British / South African import the better. She's still talking the Pharmaceutical industry up (of course) but these days on death cap mushrooms. Even the most hallucinogenic mushroom trip would never punish you with something from Siouxsie one would hope. But the School of Tropical Medicine in London, Siouxsie's "alma mater" and recipient of billions of Gates money would.

Who is going to fix NZ before I get back? Any volunteers?