Amy Brooke
Initiator and Convener of the 100 Days – Claiming Back New Zealand movement – www.100days.co.nz
Commonwealth award-placed columnist, socio-political commentator, founder of the highly regarded Summersounds Symposium and writer of real, much-loved children’s stories, Amy’s concern for the need to restore democracy in New Zealand, so that New Zealanders themselves make the decisions concerning our directions, has led her to found the 100 Days… movement.
ATTACKING ENGLISH TO UNDERMINE OUR EUROPEAN HERITAGE
It starts with very familiar, underground movements burrowing away, gaining a little ground at a time until eventually a society finds itself white-anted, as has happened here in New Zealand. On an unprecedented scale we now have widespread cultural bullying imposed upon New Zealanders at large, resulting from a very few, perennially aggrieved individuals of part-Maori descent feeling so special that superior rights and privileges must be granted to them for being more important than all others here.
The movement started in the 1980s with the seemingly innocuous Kia Ora replacing English as an apparently compulsory media greeting. All government employees, even medical personnel, are today also required to sign off with Nga mihi. Our traditional national anthem must be first sung in Maori. The inauthentic Aotearoa is now targeted at us in all government publications. We are supposed to describe family relationships in Maori – such as tamaraki, whanau, mokopuna. Re-named incomprehensibly in today’s te Reo – i.e. neo-Maori – our institutions are now unrecognisable. It is in fact a terrible cheek, with New Zealanders being bullied into line. As George Orwell warned us, a government that mandates how the language is used can control the minds of its citizens.
Strongly driving this is our demonstrably anti-democratic, arguably mischief-making Prime Minister, presiding over forcing the largely reinvented te Reo on the public to replace the use of English as our most important national and international language. While genuine Maori was an Eastern Polynesian language spoken by the original Maori people, te Reo is an approximately 90 per cent complete fabrication. University academics, inventing supposedly equivalent matches for the English language, claim te Reo is the native language of New Zealand spoken by Maoris and must be prioritised to express their culture, heritage, and identity.
Really? Although languages constantly evolve and absorb new words, to claim that today’s te Reo is authentic is untrue. English is estimated to have between 500,000 to a million words, many obsolete, with approximately 172,000 in common usage. The genuine, recorded Maori language had approximately 19,000 words. This equates to 90 per cent of te Reo being made up to provide equivalent words. Hence Te Pūtea Matua – the nonsense for the Reserve Bank; rererangi – for aeroplanes; Te Manatū Whakahiato – for the Social Welfare Department. Moreover, nowhere else in the world is Maori spoken. Compelling New Zealand children to learn this made-up language is largely a waste of their time.
Reportedly, only about 4 per cent of all New Zealanders speak this newly-invented language, extravagantly funded, imposed upon school children, teachers and the community at large, and displacing far more valuable subjects from the curriculum.
It would be far more valuable for Latin to be making a comeback in this country as overseas, not only in top schools, but where disadvantaged children are being taught Latin as a considerable help to teaching them how to think – not what to think – which our Marxist educators are prioritising. The inept Chris Hipkins, Minister of Education, is removing Latin from of the NCEA qualifications, contributing to the downward spiral of our degraded education system. New Zealand youngsters are performing abysmally in international mathematics and science assessments, and the teaching of grammar and syntax in English – the tools of thinking – have long been largely removed from the curriculum, with the majority of teachers themselves markedly ignorant in this area.
Latin, moreover, is an academic subject easy enough for its basic elements to be grasped, yet demanding enough to teach valuable lessons in concentration and analysis. For well over a thousand years it united the whole of Europe culturally, and in every other significant way.
The direct ancestor of French, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian, its derivatives contribute to well over half the English language and the language of the two greatest legal systems in history, Roman law and English common law.
It is still the language of forensics, technical material used in courts of law; the language of the taxonomy of plants and animals; the language used for chemical elements and compounds as well in medical terminology – the mottos of schools, families, universities, town, cities – of countries’ coats of arms and those of military regiments.
So why is a pre-European Polynesian language being augmented to the point of absurdity to replace far more valuable languages? The answer is because it is part of the move to dominate all other ethnic groups in this country – not by the majority of part-Maori, but by those of tribal descent formed into wealthy corporations wanting more power for themselves at the expense of all other New Zealanders.
Moreover, the rise of the call for ‘cultural sensitivity’ is a one-way street, with ridiculous demands to treat part-Maori as a primitive people needing special guidance through our health system and other institutions. Every area of our national life is now required to show obeisance to supposed Maori cultural sensitivity. For example, a brilliant Asian university graduate studying for a diploma in early childhood education is being forced to endorse the propaganda about Maori having special rights – that high Maori crime rates are caused by breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi – and other activist propaganda.
As is happening throughout the country, for undergraduates to emerge with university degrees, it is made plain that she must parrot all this nonsense in her essays or be told she is unfit to teach pre-schoolers. She is also required to rote-learn pepeha – introducing and describing herself in Maori to pass the course – with all teachers now required to do so. Moreover, informed that matauranga, Maori world views, carry equal weight to Western science, she is required to demonstrate how she would incorporate matauranga into teaching children. For example, if a child asks how the world came about, she must give the Maori version of Rangi and Papa being forced apart by their son, Tane, equal weight to the orthodox Big Bang theory. This is what the universities are now pushing – and worse.
Pity New Zealand children now being dumped on by their teachers with this primitive folklore, and expected to endorse it. Heaven help New Zealand – way past the point of no return with not even one of our political parties opposing the persistent attack on the intellectual foundations and social mores of this once proud country.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/04/attacking-english-to-undermine-our-european-heritage/
NO, NOT WAITANGI DAY. AND IS JACINDA REALLY IGNORANT, OR JUST WEAK?
Things are getting worse…under this far-left government…
Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta has announced immediate changes to allow councils to set up Maori Wards in the 2022 local elections. Given this push to refuse to allow citizens to have a say about what is basically a constitutional change, setting up racist voting structures in local government is, as Hobson’s Pledge Trust has pointed out, moving us even closer away from genuinely representative government.
Throughout New Zealand, the majority of councils’ ratepayers overwhelmingly voted against this racist initiative. Nanaia and Jacinda know this – but it is not stopping them. So what is their agenda?
So many New Zealanders, rightly or wrongly, must now be wondering if Mahuta is spelling out a specific message? For example, with her especially tattooed chin, has she a personal bias towards promoting the interests – not of the country as a whole – but of the highly unrepresentative, but aggressive minority of part-Maori extremists constantly pushing for more and more advantages? The reversion to primitivism represented by facial tattooing to emphasise cultural separatism is certainly a statement by those undertaking it, disturbing though it may be to many. The fact that she is also the public face representing New Zealand on the world stage as also the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade compounds an already ambivalent situation – given that tattooing still carries a negative stigma in other countries… and is by no means universally supported in our own.......
Continue reading here > https://100daystodemocracy.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/no-not-waitangi-day-and-is-jacinda-really-ignorant-or-just-weak/
ONCE YOU HAVE PAID THE DANEGELD…
We seem to have ingrained in us a sense of fair play, being incensed if every possible kind of advantage is constantly given to particular individuals, or ethnic groups, over all others within a country. For this reason, the call for equality for all became Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, now supported in theory only by the New Zealand government. It was also the intent of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, presided over by the valiant Captain William Hobson, whereby all the disparate, warring, scattered Maori tribal groups yielded sovereignty to the Crown, achieving the same rights of protection and equality as European settlers.
Hobson’s famous saying, He iwi tahi tatou – We are all one people – is found on the memorial plaque of his long-neglected, lonely grave below Auckland’s busy Grafton Bridge with traffic roaring overhead and sleeping bags and poignant possessions of the homeless scattered nearby. However, thanks to our politicians, New Zealand is now an overwhelmingly racist country, noted by the Economist as having embarked upon ‘the path of ethnic favouritism’. The claims of iwi (now basically corporatised, pseudo-tribal groupings identifying as Maori) are prioritised. What has essentially been a policy of appeasement, practised by our politicians when faced with aggressive, minority groups of part-Maori extremists – in most cases far from supported by the majority – has inevitably produced a climate of resentment, in contrast to what was formerly the case in New Zealand. So little racial prejudice existed that, with intermarriage the norm, not one full-blooded Maori can be found.
Yet the primitivism of even fully tattooed faces is now reappearing. Author Olivia Pierson recently described the tattooed chin of the new Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nanaia Mahuta, as ‘ugly and uncivilised’. Online shop Mighty Ape immediately banned Pierson’s books. Her view that facial tattoos are ‘not exactly a polished, civilised presentation for a foreign diplomat in the 21st century… especially on a female diplomat…’ are comments with which many would agree – but how many would do so publicly given the tirade of sheer nastiness assailing this brave commentator?
What is regarded by many as inherently dishonest is that those obviously predominantly European or Eurasian can claim the supposed disadvantage of Maori descent, with an absolute minimum of any Maori blood. (The Anglican church even maintains that to be Maori it is enough ‘to feel Maori’). And yet in seven generations or more since the signing of the treaty, the gradual entrenchment of Maori preferment and continual special funding – to the tune of billions of dollars – together with targeted advantage in every possible area – has been contrived. The treaty gravy train continues to gather momentum, stoked by well-lawyered, by no means morally or ethically scrupulous Maori representatives, some illegally occupying land not theirs. Incredibly enough, hundreds of claims are now lodged for ownership of all the New Zealand coastline and seabed – claims for which taxpayers are required to pay.
Anachronistically, we still have the controversial Maori-only seats in parliament, as well as the Maori Affairs Select Committees advising Parliament – not uncommonly containing relatives of part-Maori claimants – in some cases treating dismissively, even markedly rudely, well-researched historians contesting these.
Our successive governments have in reality been constantly outwitted by what Darwin would describe as the survival of the fittest – sharp-witted descendants of tribal groups who survived never-ending, internecine warfare and cannibalism in pre-European New Zealand and have since manipulated successive governments to obtain for themselves advantages over other New Zealanders. Moreover, it is very often those from wealthy, privileged backgrounds, overwhelming European in genetic inheritance, who know how to work the system.
The issue has been brought to a head recently with a father taking the University of Otago to court in regard to this whole question of basic unfairness… a claim now settled out of court. He very probably had the sympathy of the majority of the country, with his hard-working son averaging 92 per cent in his subjects, but turned down for admission to the medical school – given the weighting against those of European descent. Places there have always been highly competitive, with far more applicants than can be accommodated. Some would-be doctors have repeated the preliminary Intermediate Year even twice, to gain admission. It is now grossly unfair.
For example, in 2020 the medical school had 202 places available for first-year students entering from this preliminary year. Of these, 120 were given to those entering under special categories. 58 claimed to be Maori, 20 Pasifika, one Maori-Pasifika: 29 claimed rural category placings; 11 were granted places in a low socio-economic category; one under a new refugee category. That left 82 general entry places – a 59 per cent loading against any European, Chinese or other individuals in a system targeted against them. In other words, 79 places (39 per cent) were reserved for those tapping into this highly dubious racial claim of disadvantage. Yet a bare minimum of Maori genetic inheritance obviously does not put an individual at any disadvantage. It is a racist system regarded as basically a swindle.
With astute part-Maori activists noting that our political parties have opted for appeasement, given that more and more financial and political benefits are being continually yielded in response to their extremist demands, there is now a new call for constitutional change, and Maori co-government over this country.
We are a much less stable, happy, prosperous, far less democratic and now deeply divided country as a result of the lessons our political oligarchies have not learned. These include the fact that no country can peacefully accommodate one group of people constantly trying to get advantage over the others. Nor have they listened to Rudyard Kipling’s reminder of the result when, in one form or another, a country begins paying the Dane-Geld. i.e. embarking on the policies of appeasement: ‘For the end of that game is oppression and shame/And the nation that pays it is lost!’. Like most of the lessons great poetry once taught us, it, too, has been lost on today’s historically ill-educated, even venal politicians.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2020/11/kiwi-life-language/
ARE THE ARDERNISTAS AND GREENS LIVING ON PLANET STUPID?
Another important issue, pushed by the usual suspects, is the attempt to try to rename this country Aotearoa – which was never even its Maori name. No matter, we are being manipulated by continuing pressure on politicians – and the only-too compliant, mischief-making and leftist media. It is yet another push from the Maori Supremacy movement, relying on the goodwill or laziness of New Zealanders to give up opposing it. A policy of appeasement? However, we should know just take from history that appeasement never works: the demand increases – as has been happening continually with those from very few, but vocal, culturally bullying part- Maori extremists – who appear to have considerable ego problems. Although a distinct minority, their demands never stop. However, now great poetry has been removed from the school curriculum, the important reminder in Rudyard Kipling’s “Dane-geld” has been largely lost.
”And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane”..
A recent poll showed the majority of this country voting 70 to 30% against this radicalized, extremist push. However, under the guise of being nice to those with a chip on their shoulder, too many politicians, and virtue-signalling media commentators and business managers are joining in the attack on our country’s name – New Zealand.
This is all part of a deliberately orchestrated movement to gain more and more territory, inch by inch, for radicalised Maori – none of whom in fact are predominantly Maori at all, and who determinedly ignore the immense benefits that the introduction of civilisation brought to this country. It is not to their credit that they are dishonest enough to ignore and even disrespect their majority, non-Maori forebears.
It’s time to boycott Aotearoa-named companies and products that obligingly appease these radicals – and to point out that is culturally insensitive to not be addressed in the language everyone must understand – English – our important national and international language. Moreover, why should immigrants to this country – those from Asia, Europe, India, Cambodia, the Philippines, etc. already with their own primary language, be forced to compulsorily learn the newly invented, largely completely inauthentic “Maori” – as a result of what is basically cultural bullying? Competence in English is their and our prime need. Of course.
We are more than at the crossroads down the blind alleys of the racial, anti-white cultural bullying and the disproved nonsense of global warming......
WAITANGI MISINTERPRETATIONS
“The result has been that not only young part-Maori but the country itself, including our MPs, have been sold an orchestrated litany of lies.”
The deliberate promotion of fanciful misinterpretations of a long-ago Treaty of Waitangi is having tragic results. The ongoing attack on the nearly 200-year-old treaty – which unmistakably established equal rights for all, both earlier Maori immigrants to this country and the later colonists – has been deliberate. Its provisions granted to the Maori tribes important legal title to their lands held at the time – with protection against predatory buyers – and for their material possessions – their taonga.
However, the word “taonga” was stretched by the flagrantly partisan Waitangi Tribunal, described by respected media commentator Brian Priestley as “a Star Chamber”, to include pre-European, Maori ownership of airways, radio frequencies, rivers, coastal foreshores and sea beds – ludicrous claims nevertheless to some extent favoured by our governments, always with their eye on the Maori vote.
It would be hard to find today an agreement whose meaning is more inexcusably misinterpreted as a “living document”, constantly reinvented to contrive even more advantages for a small minority of part-Maori extremists. On the basis of, in many cases, a tiny percentage of Maori genetic inheritance, they conveniently overlook their far larger European ancestry while promoting resentment against colonialism and ignoring its enormous benefits.
So opportunistic have been many of the claims, that even Maori Judge Eddie Durie, long-time chairman of the Waitangi Tribunal, cautioned tribal hierarchies against withholding payment from researchers if they did not agree to suppress information querying such claims. One brave historian, in a subsequent book, confessed to removing relevant material that undermined a tribe’s claim: he was refused payment otherwise........
Read Amy Brooke’s full article here > https://100daystodemocracy.wordpress.com/2020/09/01/ethnic-favouritism-although-colour-conscious-programs-are-polarising/
TROSS PUBLISHING - THOSE NEW ZEALANDERS REDEEMING OUR TIMES
I have felt guilty for some time about being unable to do justice to the excellent, highly relevant books which John McLean, publisher of Tross Books, manages to produce, putting our largely leftwing, mainstream publishers to shame. His tireless campaign has embraced publishing well-researched writers addressing to the truth of issues about the actual facts, rather than media and government-supported propaganda, in relation to the history of this country.
This is vital knowledge, given the long taken-over of our educational institutions - including the Ministry of Education - by those who initially openly boasted about being neo-Marxists when I reviewed their books for the Christchurch Press in the 1980s onwards. However, they have long tunnelled underground, while we New Zealanders have been cushioned by our geographical isolation from the constant threat of invasion, both external and now internal, that Britain and European countries have had to face throughout the centuries. This, and that the fact that the teaching of history has been so long deliberately withheld from the school curriculum by this same ministry, means that New Zealanders as a whole are largely ignorant and complacent about the threat that communism, and indeed socialism, poses to any democratic country. The silly rebuttal to those writing to raise awareness of the white-anting of this country was often that they were imagining “Reds under the beds” - a clever move from the far Left, as ridicule is a strong weapon when attacking those trying to urgently bring home the truth of issues.
However, I also remember the riposte given by a Catholic trade union leader, well aware of the infiltration taking place, to the effect that it wasn’t just a case of “Reds under the beds” – but that they were actually sitting up in bed and having breakfast brought in. Metaphorically speaking, he was right.
Since the demise of INVESTIGATE magazine, produced by Ian Wishart, we have had no contemporary journal providing much-needed analysis of the relentless attack with which we are undoubtedly faced. We owe Ian a great deal for providing highly relevant, contemporary analysis of just what was, and is, happening in this country and abroad - including the mischief-making and venality of those whose political agenda has been very much against preserving New Zealand as a democracy. This of course includes the parliamentarians signed up to handing over our independence to a One World Government movement, aiming for an over- governing body with its own army to keep dissident nations in check. Like ours?
While Australia has the excellent The Spectator, News Weekly, Quadrant and The IPA Review, New Zealand now has no important and relevant journals - with the exception of ELocal, the community-based magazine producing worthwhile articles.
We therefore are very much indebted to John McLean of Tross Publishing who consistently publishes books bringing home to New Zealanders what is actually happening - and has been happening in this country - and the threats posed to us, again internally and externally.......
KIWI LIFE
The takeover of both our major chains has been not overnight, but part of the white-anting of all our institutions, that long internal attack by well-placed ideologues programmed in the best possible tactics to undermine Western democracies. The contrast in this country is marked from the 1980s and early 90s, when I was fortunate enough to write under editors of fierce integrity. A columnist for seven years for our capital city newspaper, I was free from editorial interference – adhering to ‘facts are sacred, comment free’ – until the arrival of a new editor. Then, by refusing to remove a deserved tribute to two other writers (one of whom had previously beaten the present editor to the position he now held) I was sacked from the Dominion – subsequently finding that writers asking where my columns had gone had their correspondence suppressed.
A pointer to the way the weathervane was swinging was the subservience now shown to radical activists. It’s significant that until the Sixties, New Zealand had an enviable record of racial harmony. So much were intermarriage and mutual respect taken for granted that there are no longer any full-blooded Maori. Many today claiming discrimination and disadvantage are well-heeled agitators with minimal Maori genetic inheritance. But with the Marxist Trojan Horse now embraced by our all-important media, with its enormous influence on public opinion, everything has changed.
Read full article here > https://www.spectator.com.au/2020/08/kiwi-life/
MADE-UP MAORI
This reinvention of pseudo-Maori has penetrated every section of our society, with even the national anthem now prioritised in Maori. It is all a great con, presented as authentic; deliberately fabricated for political advantage; but underpinned by empowerment politics foisted upon children and teachers in our schools, replacing subjects of genuine importance already struggling for a foothold. Demonstrably, racial preferment has become a Trojan horse.....
Read Amy Brookes’ full article here > www.spectator.com.au/2019/10/made-up-maori/
WHY IS JACINDA ARDERN PROMOTING FURTHER RACIAL SEPARATISM?
Can Ardern really be ignorant of the fact that there is absolutely no doubt that New Zealanders as a whole - whatever their ethnic background - are now fed up with the increasing polarisation of society along the lines of a deliberately promoted Maori superiority?
Is she ignorant, naïve - or does she have a more concerning aim in mind?
According to the usual part-Maori activists, Maori names must now appear first. In city streets, throughout national and local government agencies, signs are being rewritten at considerable expense to the whole country so that Maori - in many cases, of course, predominantly reinvented Maori - is to take precedence. Any English must appear in much smaller lettering underneath.
This is not only insulting to the majority of New Zealanders: it appears to be an extraordinary insensitive promotion of resentment, of a kickback against the massive, never-ending payouts of now hundreds of millions of dollars in supposed “compensation” by a generation today which had absolutely nothing to do with any wrongs committed nearly 200 hundred years ago. Moreover, a one-sided emphasis on these has been allowed to hold sway for too long.
Add on the nonsensical assertion that what is now an overwhelmingly fake language should be compulsorily inflicted upon the country…with attempts to pass it off as “the language of the land”, and the inevitable backlash is gathering momentum.
Someone needs to tell the present Race Relations Conciliator this claim of hers is sheer gobbledygook. The land has no language. The land cannot speak. Faced with an inexorable logic, even if one were deluded enough to literally put one ear to the ground, one would have to admit a failure in any attempt to listen to the land speaking…
Moreover, if the land today had a language it would be English – the international language overwhelmingly necessary for communication both within and outside this country…the language which new immigrants must learn to assimilate...the language which by far the majority of those of Maori descent also prefer to speak. And any attempt by the politically correct to try to gain more mileage for a language stretched well past its original authenticity will be resisted by New Zealanders who have far more important things to do - and who resent the ongoing virtual squandering of scores of millions of dollars each year on a now inauthentic, largely made-up language which has no relevance to them. But it provides lucrative jobs for the boys and girls pushing it…
In fact, it can be argued that it is not only farcical to claim that a genuine Maori language has the words for, say Inland Revenue Department, Ministry of Social Welfare, economy return flight tickets to Afghanistan… Accident and Emergency Department… but that it is a basic con to claim that this largely reinvented language is authentic.
So why is this happening?
We are also well overdue to ask – who is Maori?
It’s past time for a scientifically based definition of Maori. We should now be insisting upon this from this government, because the lack of any definition allows today’s opportunists, those with their eye to the main chance, to claim to be Maori for any economic or preferential advantage going.
There are no longer any genuinely full-blooded Maoris in this country. And the most prominent iwi opportunists are those who are predominantly certainly not Maori - but to whom the constant rejection of the largest proportion of their genetic inheritance pays great dividends – given today’s corruption of our vote-seeking political parties.
Remember Donna Awatare? A convicted fraudster, together with her husband, she was found guilty in 2005 and sentenced to 2 years nine months in jail. They were convicted of stealing $80,000 from a trust fund she had formed to improve literacy among under-performing Maori children. Since being released from jail, she has held several roles including deputy chair administration for the New Zealand Māori Council.
In 2014 she represented the council in presenting the Māori claim for water to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. And Jacinda Ardern’s government has now appointed her Maori Climate Commissioner.
How many will have been incredulous at this news?
It is not surprising, but it is ominous, that our major newspaper syndicates, obligingly changing their mastheads to switch to Maori-derived names, have now severely cut back, or completely dispensed with, the ability to comment on the major socio-political articles of the day.
Why do you think this might be? Could it possibly be related to the fact that most commentators have voiced their concern, even their anger, at the views of the majority of New Zealanders now being completely discarded.
One correspondent‘s view, that the Treaty of Waitangi has become a stranglehold on the rest of the country, is now reflected the length and breadth of the country.
Another expat’s comments represent the thinking of many. Having left New Zealand because of the increasingly toxic atmosphere caused by our political parties sell-out
of democracy along racist lines, he writes, “It seems the will of the people in a democratic vote is not respected if the minority don’t like it. This I find very worrying, as voting is the basis of democracy.”
Individuals who feel powerless in the face of this increasingly racist reorientation of New Zealand do have a remedy. And it’s a very easy one.
Each of us can indeed stand up to be counted. You don’t have to despise yourself for doing nothing (an essentially cowardly choice which diminishes us as human beings, as Jordan Peterson points out ) - or for feeling powerless in the face of this virtual steam-rolling over the majority of New Zealanders.
When did you last put a quick call through to Parliament to the appropriate office - that of your local MP? - or the office of the leader of a political party. They claim they really want to hear from you - then why don’t you make sure they do?
A correspondent has contacted me to say she has done just that. She rang Jacinda Arden’s office to politely state that she completely disagrees - as do majority of New Zealanders - with the racist lines Jacinda Ardern is promoting... She asked her views to be taken into account - to be taken back to the Prime Minister.
Everything in the end depends upon individuals. Why don’t you do the same? And no - it’s not like knocking on the headmaster’s door! We employ and pay our political servants. We will be genuinely beginning to claim back this country when we act upon this actual fact.
Parliament’s number is 04 817 9999. Ring and ask to be put through to the appropriate office. Every call counts - as does doing nothing… We do have a choice.
MAORI “GREAT CONSERVATIONISTS”? WHY THIS UNSCIENTIFIC NONSENSE?
Maori “great conservationists”? Why is this distorting nonsense being peddled? Maori, after all, blithely burnt whole forests and wiped out numbers of species. Who profits from this constantly trumpeted, quite wrong claim?
For example: Within a couple of hundred years of settling in NZ, Maori had wiped out more than forty native species, including every one of the nine species of moa.
<a href="https://teara.govt.nz/en/human-effects-on-the-environment">https://teara.govt.nz/en/human-effects-on-the-environment</a>
Isolated for millions of years, New Zealand’s plants and animals were very vulnerable to the impact of humans. When the ancestors of Māori arrived around 1250–1300 AD, bringing rats and dogs, they started a wave of extinctions that continues today.
<a href="https://envirohistorynz.com/2009/12/15/impacts-of-the-maori-on-the-environment/">https://envirohistorynz.com/2009/12/15/impacts-of-the-maori-on-the-environment/</a>
Maori also had a significant impact on the archipelago’s fauna: nearly forty species of birds, a bat, three to five species of frogs and numerous lizard taxa became extinct during the pre-European Maori era. Factors leading to the extinction of these species were direct hunting, predation by or competition with introduced dogs and rats, human disturbance of nesting sites, and habitat destruction (mainly through burning).
<a ref="https://newzealandecology.org/nzje/1866.pdf">https://newzealandecology.org/nzje/1866.pdf</a>
Summary: Polynesian settlement of New Zealand (c. 1000 yr B.P.) led directly to the extinction or reduction of much of the vertebrate fauna, destruction of half of the lowland and montane forests, and widespread soil erosion.
<a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/03/why-did-new-zealands-moas-go-extinct">http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/03/why-did-new-zealands-moas-go-extinct</a>
For millions of years, nine species of large, flightless birds known as moas (Dinornithiformes) thrived in New Zealand. Then, about 600 years ago, they abruptly went extinct. Their die-off coincided with the arrival of the first humans on the islands in the late 13th century....he is not surprised that the Polynesian settlers killed off the moas; any other group of humans would have done the same, he suspects. “We like to think of indigenous people as living in harmony with nature,” he says. “But this is rarely the case......
Read on here > http://www.100days.co.nz/
THE REAL RACISM, SUSAN DEVOY? CHECK OUT NGAI TAHU
What, Ms Devoy, do scientist and columnist Dr Bob Brockie, MNZM; conservationist Bud Jones, QSM (recognised for years of faithful service - and with a distinguished career as a professional musician); Neil Hayes, QSM, who was awarded a QSM in recognition of his 34 years of continuous involvement in attempting to save the rare and critically endangered NZ Brown Teal (Anas chlorotis) from extinction – have in common? Neil is a Royal Chartered Environmentalist. Add in, among other highly regarded New Zealanders, the eminent Bruce Moon, the first person to install a computer in a New Zealand University. The answer? They all have been warning what you should be well aware of, in your position, but apparently aren't. Or are you just keeping your head down? Whatever; this just isn't good enough, and your dogmatic utterances are helping to foster divisiveness and dissent.
In a recent Dominion Post column, Bob Brockie brought to public scrutiny the shockingly racist bias and tribal centre-staging which has wormed its way into what should be completely independent centres of learning in this country. What has long been imposed by neo-Marxist activists within the Ministry of Education, blatantly targeting schoolchildren with their damaging propaganda, has now taken an even stronger foothold within our higher institutes of learning.
Dr Brockie highlighted the fact that what was once Britain's top scientific organisation, the Royal Society - morphing here into the Royal Society of New Zealand – (which is supposed to foster scientific research and provide independent advice on scientific matters, free of political commercial or cultural bias) - is now doing nothing of the sort. Transferring itself into "an academy" in 2010 it appointed representatives of the humanities to its councils - at which stage the alarm bells should have started to ring...because of course these artistic and literary " councillors" (from both the government-funded arts and literary circles) have long been thoroughly partisan and biased – and very much controlled by the politically correct.
Granting themselves an obscure title in the newly invented, inauthentic and ponderous Maori-speak, these advisers called themselves Te Whainga Aronui o Te Aparangi, and brought with them the inevitable baggage load of cultural and political activism from the humanities - the centre of subversive activity within our universities in recent decades. As Dr Brockie points out (inheriting the essential madness of the French nihilist philosophers, Derrida, Foucault and their disciples) these have long argued that there are no such things as facts - that everybody's opinions are of equal value - "whether those of a quantum physicist or a Stone Age nobody". I recall, for example, Oxford's then Marxist English Professor Terry Eagleton maintaining that the novels of Barbara Cartland equalled in value the works produced by the actor, Shakespeare (or, more likely, the 17th Earl of Oxford - cf. Joseph Sobran's brilliant and scholarly "Alias Shakespeare" - offering a much-needed intellectual challenge to the sheer laziness of a great part of the regurgitated research offered by university humanities departments in recent decades).
It was primarily our universities, particularly the English and Education departments, abandoning their traditional description as faculties, who so thoroughly embraced the sheer fatuity of political correctness, maintaining that people's beliefs and opinions are of equal value - (unless of course, they are Christian, in which case they must be disparaged and ridiculed) - and that "decontextualisation" - the meaning of which defies comprehension - should rule, in literature, rather than what a great writer actually wrote.
At any rate, the real scandal is that this year, the Te Whainga group, whoever they are and whatever this means, are now claiming that the Royal Society, via its current president, Richard Bedford, ”needs to place the Treaty of Waitangi centrally, and bring alongside that inequity and adversity issues in a holistic manner." As Bob Brockie points out - this is outrageous. The Treaty, whose real meaning has been so usefully distorted, reinvented and "reinterpreted" by today's radical propagandists, assisted by lawyers with their eye to the lucrative work involved, "has no place in scientific endeavour. To make it the centrepiece of the Royal Society's agenda beggars belief."
Dr Brockie is right. Moreover, he points to something equally shocking - that Otago University recently proclaimed that the aggressive neo-tribe, Ngai Tahu must be consulted "about all areas of research" before scholars begin their work. "All proposals must be submitted to the office of Maori development". Staff and students were warned that consultation may take time, so they were advised “to start well in advance of preparing your proposal." He points out that Otago researchers are looking into everything " from zeta functions, quantum physics, logistics, dental technology and Roman Law to compositions by Brahms - and rightly asks what expertise Ngai Tahu have in evaluating these research proposals. He also points out that "Ngai Tahu run several commercial companies (with a surplus of many millions annually) and could turn down research that questions or challenges its business motives or motivations.”
Moreover, most of this research is simply not Ngai Tahu's business. Not only do they have no expertise in judging the value of such research - it is quite appalling that Otago University has acquiesced, as Dr Brockie points out, to such proscriptive, inquisitorial demands". Shame on my former university......
Read on at > wp.me/pRVIl-eF
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BEST PRACTICE DEMOCRACY?
People protesting against both the concept and practice of authoritarian government has now become a worldwide phenomenon. It seems high time therefore to turn our attention to considering what have been, or are, examples of best practice democracy in action.
In The March of Folly, Pulitzer prize-winning historian Barbara Tuchman, reviewing crucial decisions in world history from the Trojan War down to the US involvement in Vietnam, stated as an historical phenomenon that ‘governments get most issues wrong’.
If so, it would seem we should reflect on this before we fling ourselves into the trap of constitutional reform, an issue pushed by radicalised in-groups particularly keen in New Zealand to lock preferential rights and special privileges into any reform process, to favour individuals with a Maori genetic inheritance – no matter how minimal. The fact that there are apparently no longer any full-blooded Maori in New Zealand, and that after 200 years of cohabitation, not only has the Maori economy, well funded by treaty settlements, reached $50 billion, but part-Maori have successfully taken their place throughout the professions, the trades and industries, argues against such racist provisions. That the benefits of the taxpayer-funded treaty settlements were, arguably, unwisely handed to the powerful neo-tribes with no requirement for accountability, so that these wealthy, virtual corporations have neglected an underclass of disadvantaged Maori, is no argument for any constitutional reform locking in a virtual apartheid.
Our 1985 Labour government’s ill-thought proposal to re-visit a then century and a half‘s conflicting claims of tribal ownership dating back to the signing of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi has been described as unbridled folly. The Maori gift of oratorical persuasiveness produces powerful rhetoric, acting upon governments which appear to have been both emotionally labile and historically under-informed. A speech, for example, by Doug Graham, when Minister in charge of the negotiations, was staggeringly simplistic, infantilising the facts of history. For example, consider the claim that pre-European Maori ‘had a well-developed societal structure, well understood the need for ecological and environmental considerations, and no doubt would have happily carried on had not the ships arrived with settlers with quite different cultural backgrounds and understandings’. This Pollyanna picture of a stable, cohesive group of happy-ever-after people is far removed from the reality. Social instability, hunger, slavery and violence were endemic, with marauding clans locked into cyclic utu (revenge-seeking) extreme cruelty and cannibalism. Far from being protectors of the environment, pre-European Maori set fire to forests to hunt the giant moa and other birds to extinction. The pre-European, Maori way of living offered no permanent right to land, life, or possessions.
It is all too easy to be wise after an event. Sir Geoffrey Palmer, prominent in his legal activism, claimed that the setting up of the Waitangi tribunal ‘has been an enduring contribution to the constitutional position of Maori in this country’. However, even at the time, well-founded concern was that that the tribunal would act as an over-powerful, partisan body. Inviting comparison with a star chamber, it excludes from genuine representation the majority population with a substantial stake in its findings.
Moreover, most New Zealanders, including many of Maori descent, do not concur with court decisions granting racial preferment and privileges to part-Maori. The public largely thinks that the government and courts, drawn from and influenced by the politically correct cultural cliques of the day, have by no means been free from judicial activism. Moreover, there is widespread disappointment that the reportedly ‘bottom line’ pre-election undertaking by the Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters that the removal of the racist Maori seats in Parliament would be a requirement for the support of his party, New Zealand First, has been abandoned. Public cynicism and the distrust of politicians have reached probably an all-time high in this country, too.....
Read on here > https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/03/best-practice-democracy/
THE SLIPPERY PATH TO RACIAL SEPARATISM..
The growing push towards racial separatism in this country is deplored by most New Zealanders - including those with partial Maori ancestry who do not benefit in the slightest from what now corporatised iwi continually pressure government to contrive - advantages for themselves only.
The former principle of equal rights and protection for all - in a genuine democracy - regardless of colour, race, gender or creed, has never been bettered. But our vote-buying government is steadily selling us out - and damaging social relationships - as well as our economy.
The Maori economy is now worth over $40 billion - courtesy of taxpayers' pockets - (very little of which has reached any but powerful iwi ) - as a result of treaty settlements which were intended to help those genuinely disadvantaged. Instead, pseudo-tribes which actually manage to avoid paying any tax at all are constantly chasing even more money and power - and flexing their muscles. Pressure is being put not only on local government organisations for undemocratic, special representation - but universities and other institutions are giving way to moneyed iwi pressure to demand that scholarships be directed preferentially towards supposed Maori benefit - or given only to Maori - and that students be required to demonstrate "cultural sensitivity" before they are allowed to graduate!
These are quite shocking examples of cultural bullying - with complete disregard for the "cultural sensitivity" of all others - those who want their own very real values - their wish for a genuine democracy - to be prioritised.
The petition below deserves all our support. And we need to recognise, as individuals, that it is up to each of us to help claim back this country - and to object to our government, our political parties, our own MPs - about this growing apartheid - which it basically is. Apart from signing below, we can text or call our own MPs, our local body councillors, Ministers, the PM or write to our local newspapers - to object to these damaging policies. Or we can do nothing....
Petition here > https://www.change.org/p/prime-minister-abolish-auckland-council-s-maori-statutory-board
The government's now damaging identity politics?
It's past time for more NZErs to wake up to the fact that our politicians have long been causing considerable damage to the country. And they will be no help at all to us with regard to the new radicalised, but smooth-talking attempt to entrench a basically activist and damaging constitution for Aotearoa (the radicalised name a giveaway in itself). This proposed, oh-so-necessary move is also basically designed to assist iwi to have special racist rights over the rest of the country.
Like rust, those plotting away behind the scenes - (and using Lenin’s well-meaning “useful fools” from among our lawyers and bureaucrats) never sleep… Why for example, are our new banknotes headed Aotearoa New Zealand - which is certainly not New Zealand’s official name - and never was? However, Aotearoa is increasingly used as part of a radicalised attempt to prioritise the Maori language as having more “authenticity” than English - which is demonstrably untrue – but taken up by feel-good NZers with no idea of the issues at stake.
In fact, right throughout all our institutions, a now thoroughly inauthentic “Maori” is being forced on those working there - including in our schools (as well as the universities) where one by one good teachers are resigning, over-whelmed by the proliferation of never-ending compliance issues forced on them by the well and truly radicalised Ministry of Education. Many not only thoroughly disagree with these, but find it now impossible to get worthwhile, genuine teaching time. Moreover, the basic dishonesty of claiming that the now many thousands of newly invented Maori words being forced upon the country as authentic Maori needs to be challenged - (its relation to the previously genuine spoken Maori is minimal) - as does the thoroughly politicised move to trap young part-Maori into segregated te reo schools. These serve the purpose of radicalised iwi, anxious to increase tribal adherence, but cheat these children, too, of anything approaching a quality education......
Read Amy’s full article here > https://100daystodemocracy.wordpress.com/author/amyjbrooke/
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NGAI TAHU
Moreover vital evidence was withheld. Early reports from reputable historians who knew Ngai Tahu well in the late 19th century described the tribe then as lazy and negligent, “no longer cultivating their food as it required too much care.” The evidence from the Rev James Stack’s 1872 observations, for example, that was that “kumara, pumpkins, melons, turnips, etc. all favourite articles of diet were no longer cultivated, the reason given that they required too much care….Though very fond of milk and butter, no household provided itself with these – “everyone shirks the trouble’ he said.”
None of this direct reportage regarding the tribe’s practices was ever presented to contradict NgaiTahu’s claims that the tribe had insufficient land. “Stack felt that one reason for the neglect of agriculture ‘was the facility afforded for the idle to live on the industrious’. In 1879 he noted that the prevailing practice of leasing land to Europeans fostered the habit of depending on others. He said ‘Neither the pressure of want, nor the prospect of gain, nor the advice of friends, prevailed to induce the Maoris here to cultivate the lands.’”
As Hampton noted, Crown witnesses not only failed to advance this material, but also ignored an earlier report by Alexander Mackay, friend to the tribe at the time, commenting on its “constitutional indolence.”
Given that these witnesses had been told that their evidence was “not to be put forward in a matter partial to the Crown, and that they must not act as advocates for the Crown”, fair representation of the Crown and therefore of New Zealanders who would be required to pay for the outcome of this flawed process was doomed from the start. Moreover, it is almost impossible, when considering the findings of Wellington historian Alan Everton, which were impressively researched and published at the time of the Ngai Tahu claim, not to concur with his assessment. “The inescapable conclusion to be drawn from the records is that the tribunal did not get at the truth, and any settlement of Ngai Tahu’s claims based on its report will be nothing short of a fraud.”.....
Questions are still unanswered about why at the time Ngai Tahu were given sole monopoly rights to whale watching. It was not Maori, but the early Europeans, who first hunted whales. Maori, lacking the technology, were restricted to using beached bones for carving.
There has been no answer to date, too, about why the thinly scattered, numerically small Ngai Tahu tribe were at the same time inexplicably given sole rights to South Island greenstone, which it did not even discover. The Ngati Wairangi tribe traded greenstone from Westland to the North Island long before Ngai Tahu journeyed to the South Island. Reportedly, as early as 1510, greenstone was conveyed by canoe to the Maoris of Napier and Poverty Bay.....
Read more here > http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/2631/the-future-of-the-waitangi-tribunal-continued/
TE ROROA
Claims of conflict of interest are consistently raised when it is pointed out that some tribunal members appear to be wearing two hats. An expectation of impartiality and balance should be fulfilled in any semi-judicial hearing making recommendations to government involving multi-million-dollar handouts to tribes. However, known radical activists, advocating strongly for their own tribes, are periodically members of the tribunal.
The research of the one New Zealand Foundation’s Ross Baker has uncovered a Department of Lands and Survey file, as far back as November 1985, pointing out that during the District Maori Land Advisory Committee Tour of Northland “a Mr Ned Nathan seems to be the leading local person pursuing this claim and he also sits on the Waitangi Tribunal in place of Sir Graham Latimer when he has an interest in the land under consideration” (italics mine). In other words, Ned Nathan, the main Te Roroa claimant and a plucky World War II veteran who’d managed to resist Gestapo torture, was also a member of the Waitangi Tribunal hearing the Te Roroa claim – a clear conflict of interest in my view that would not be permitted in any other New Zealand court.
It is not the first time that claimants have been judge and jury – or that members of the tribunal sitting to consider claims have had a relationship with the tribe whose claims they were hearing. The District Field Officer at the time, Mr. L.G Fraser, stated that although the claim received verbal support “naturally” from the majority of the Committee, “the Department of Lands and Survey has already investigated this claim and was of the opinion that it could not be sustained.” He went on to point out that “the information presented to the Committee with the documentation presented to them was very lightweight and they would be on very shaky ground making a recommendation decision on that information.”
This reminder is particularly relevant in connection with the Te Roroa claim, as the present Minister for Treaty Negotiations, Chris Finlayson, has been responsible for authorising payment of $9.5 million of taxpayer funds in connection with this claim. In reply to a March 2010 query by Ross Baker to the Minister of Finance on behalf of the One New Zealand Foundation asking if taxpayer funding has now been provided to compensate Te Roroa for their “alleged” but unproven claim and if so why, a partial answer only was received from the Minister of Treaty Negotiations, to whom the query was forwarded. Finlayson confirmed that the Te Roroa Deed of Settlement, originally signed on December 17, 2005 had now provided land and financial redress to the value of $9.5 million as part of the settlement package.”
However, to an impartial observer, all would not seem to be well. Not only had chief Judge Shepherd found there was no evidence to support this claim in 1939, and it was further rejected by parliament in 1942, but the select committee of which the now Minister of Treaty Negotiations was then a member, contained members who, through intermarriage and genetic inheritance, have tribal affiliations. How have we arrived at a situation where a less than impartial committee may report back to Parliament? It might well trouble the impartial observer that of its eight part-Maori members some were related to Te Roroa , and Georgina Te Heuheu was a member of the Waitangi Tribunal that actually heard the Te Roroa Claim. Pita Sharples, the present co-leader of the radicalised Maori Party, was also one of its members. This matter was apparently brought to the attention of the Speaker of the House at the time, but nothing was done. Its National Party member Tau Henare subsequently claimed to Parliament that the One New Zealand Foundation submission had not been heard – when, in fact, the committee had indeed heard it.
Read more here > http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/2634/abolishing-the-waitangi-tribunal-conclusion/?doing_wp_cron=1450076220.3738059997558593750000
TUHOE
Similarly, the recent Tuhoe settlement is yet another instance of taxpayers once again being compelled to make very dubious “compensation” – this time to the tribes of the Central North Island – when there is well-documented evidence, recorded at the time, to show that the Tuhoe were paid at a very good rate and were well satisfied with the compensation they received for marginal land subsequently planted in forestry by the State – land for which they themselves have managed to receive a further recent large payout. Claims were made by Tuhoe which, arguably, on the evidence of the times, were simply untrue. However, at the convenience of government, such important facts are ritually ignored. For example, apparently Tuhoe did not have 24,147 ha of land confiscated. The true figure supplied by the One New Zealand foundation was 5700ha, and, contrary to Tuhoe’s always highly emotive representation, this land was not confiscated without good reason. An article by Stephen Oliver published in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography leaves little doubt that the government of the day had every right to confiscate land from Tuhoe.
Moreover, it has also been stated that Tuhoe was not subsequently compensated for this land. But in Richard Hill’s, Justice Department record for the Lange government in 1989, page 11, clause 31, Tuhoe were as shown to have received $200,000....
Read more here > http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/2634/abolishing-the-waitangi-tribunal-conclusion/?doing_wp_cron=1450076220.3738059997558593750000
WAITANGI TRIBUNAL
Underpinning all this disquiet has been the Waitangi Tribunal. Public perception now is that not only is the tribunal biased in the way it operates, but the fact that that some of its members come from radicalised backgrounds and have close links to tribes whose claims the tribunal hears cannot possibly contribute to impartial hearings. Moreover, it has been wrongly allowed to operate as if it is a genuine judicial authority – when it is nothing of the sort.
Both these realities bring into question its very existence, as well as the fact that majority New Zealanders – including very many part-Maori who are not organised into activist neo-tribal groupings – are disadvantaged by the tribunal’s links to tribal and government representatives – given the now compromised Maori vote-buying governments of the day.
It is hard indeed to avoid the conclusion that the abolishing of this highly divisive body with its arguably damaging recommendations is well overdue.....
Read more here > http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/2634/abolishing-the-waitangi-tribunal-conclusion/?doing_wp_cron=1450076220.3738059997558593750000