It’s about time someone in Parliament remembered who actually runs the country and for once, it’s not a committee of academics and legal theorists camped out in a Treaty echo chamber. Enter Simeon Brown, who has dared to tug on the sacred cloak of the Waitangi Tribunal, the one institution that’s never had to answer the question: who keeps you in check, mate?
Let’s be real. The Waitangi Tribunal, created in 1975 to hear Māori grievances against the Crown, has morphed into something far more powerful than ever intended. It now churns out non binding but politically lethal reports that magically get treated like moral commandments by governments too scared of headlines to say “thanks, but no thanks.”
The public’s starting to notice the Tribunal isn’t a referee it’s the coach of one team, wearing the jersey, calling the game, and handing out the trophies. It investigates only claims by Māori against the Crown. That’s not “neutral.” That’s an in house complaint department with no obligation to represent all New Zealanders yet it demands policies that affect everyone.
Now, with Māori specific health structures collapsing under political scrutiny (good riddance to race based bureaucracy), the Tribunal is predictably firing up the grievance engine. Apparently, disestablishing a parallel system based on ethnicity is a “Treaty breach.” Of course it is everything is, when you write the rules and then interpret them yourself.
Simeon Brown is one of the few with the spine to say healthcare should be for everyone, not a racial sorting system. And when the Tribunal tries to slap him down with another “recommendation,” it’s high time someone replied: recommendations aren’t laws, and your reach isn’t divine right.
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How Dare They Make Us Explain Ourselves! - Bureaucrats Panic Over Common Sense Bill (Regulatory Standards Bill)
Imagine the horror: a government forced to justify its actions. Ministers having to explain why they’re stomping on property rights or piling on red tape like it’s a national sport. Madness! That’s what the new regulatory principles bill proposes and naturally, it has the usual suspects in full pearl clutching mode.
The bill, backed by the government’s grown ups (for once), says laws should respect freedom of choice, property rights, the rule of law, and shouldn’t come with a small print clause that reads: “You’re paying for this forever.” Ministers would need to state openly when they’re violating those principles. In other words, if you’re going to bulldoze rights, at least have the decency to do it in daylight.
Predictably, the Left is fuming. They call it “ideological.” Translation: it’s harder now to sneak through dreamland legislation that quietly rewrites society before anyone notices. You know, like when Labour used its majority to ram through near untouchable laws, stuffed with regulatory booby traps and evergreen powers. But sure this bill is the problem.
What really scares them isn’t that the bill stops them. It doesn’t. It just exposes them. And for a political class that prefers operating behind consultation documents and urgency motions, that’s the real outrage: being held accountable in public.
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Appeasement Rd, Luxon And Maori Activists - John Porter
Luxon has placed National in a precarious position, teetering between success and failure. What Luxon fails to comprehend is that Appeasement Road is a no exit road and at the end of this road, maori activist are assembled eagerly awaiting Luxon’s arrival and Luxon will have no option but to hand over the keys to our country!
It is well passed the time where Prime Minister Luxon began to think about the people who built New Zealand and more importantly, the people who will continue to build New Zealand in the future.
Because it will not be the maori activists, those who continue to demand, and receive, more and more from the taxpayers purse; they will destroy New Zealand!
Source: BreakingViews (Comments)
We have a "grievance industry" - Rex Anderson
Do not mistake that for a "grievance process".
Once you get your head around that fact, it becomes a lot easier to understand.
To iwi and their "Klingons", it's big business!.
Look at this "not" as an angry taxpayer.
But, from a business point of view.
This "business" employs hundreds of people, including lawyers, bogus historians, politicians, eg Willie Jackson, John Tamihere, university lecturers, Doctors, teachers, trustees on boards, some councils are stacked with gimps for the treaty troughers.
The entire education system has been "paid" to teach victimisation and guilt!
The government say claims are nearing an end?
Remember, we are talking about a "business".
Would you walk away from a business that earned you millions of dollars a year and was completely paid for by the NZ taxpayer?
Do you think treaty troughing lawyers are going to let this happen? This business attracts all the bottom feeders, the morally bankrupt.
They will not give up without a fight.
At this moment, they are gathering like "vultures" around Ngapuhi, promoting the "lie" that Maori did not cede sovereignty, to go with the other "lie" that there is partnership in the TOW!
Chris Whinlayson has spent his entire working life misrepresenting the TOW and NZ history, for a living, this is his profession!
Equally at home in "bed" with Honest Johnny Key giving away the foreshore and sea bed, or pandering to his "pet" iwi Ngai Tahu, whom he [Finlayson] is working for at the moment, according to him, they own the water!
The only way big business stops is if it's broke, bankrupt, or runs out of money. - Only you can do that.
The government will not stop these GRIFTERS, look at National, back promoting separatism and racial privilege, just as they have always done! - And always will!
Source: Facebook
"When Myth Becomes Method: Science Bows to Spiritual Symbolism" - Steven Mark Gaskell.
It’s official: we’ve entered the age where feelings outvote facts and symbolism crushes science all under the banner of decolonisation. The new national pastime? Elevating mātauranga Māori the indigenous knowledge system to the same status as physics, chemistry, and biology.
Forget Newton. Forget Einstein. We’ve got whakapapa, atua, and taniwha to explain the workings of the universe now. And if you so much as raise an eyebrow, you’re instantly labelled racist, colonial, or worse “anti-tikanga.”
Mātauranga Māori, for the uninitiated, is a pagan spiritual, so called knowledge system passed down orally blending herbal lore, cosmology, storytelling, and environmental observation. Rich in culture? Absolutely. Valuable as heritage? Of course.
But science it is not.
At least, not in the sense of peer review, falsifiability, or replicable results those annoying colonial constructs like "proof" and "data."
But that hasn’t stopped the movement. In universities, it’s being injected into science departments like a vaccine for post-colonial guilt. In schools, children are taught that Māori gods control the weather and tides, with all the seriousness of Newton's Laws.
And scientists who dare question this ideological fusion? Silenced, doxxed, or “re-educated.”
This isn’t about celebrating culture. It’s about replacing objective inquiry with cultural ideology a political project wrapped in flax and feathers. All under the illusion of “balance” and “Treaty partnership.”
Meanwhile, a tiny but powerful elite of cultural advisors, academic bureaucrats, and treaty consultants are laughing all the way to the public funding bank, issuing “kaupapa” and “narratives” at $250/hour while real scientists leave for Australia.
So yes, let’s decolonise everything even our brains. Let's toss out proven medical science for rongoā. Let’s have engineers consult the ancestors before building bridges. Let’s do astronomy by constellation myths instead of telescopes.
Because nothing says progress like crawling backwards… at snail’s pace.
The article Steven is responding to > https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/565872/matauranga-maori-science-fair-applies-traditional-thinking-to-modern-day-problems
Source: Facebook
From Feather Cloaks to Fascist Fandom: Rawiri Waititi’s New "Hero" Exposes the Real TPM Agenda - Steven Mark Gaskell
Just when you thought Rawiri Waititi couldn’t get any more performative, he declares a new “modern day hero” and it’s not a kaumātua or Māori pioneer. No, it’s Ibrahim Traoré, a West African military strongman who seized power in a coup, shut down elections, cozied up to Russia, and minor detail allegedly oversaw the massacre of over 220 civilians, including children.
That’s who the co leader of Te Pāti Māori idolises. Not a freedom fighter. A textbook tyrant.
Deputy PM David Seymour called it a threat to democracy and he’s not wrong. TPM’s constant cries of “decolonise” now appear to mean “embrace dictators who murder their own people but say mean things about the West.”
While media outlets stay silent (as usual), the rest of us should ask: if this is TPM’s idea of leadership, what kind of “sovereignty” are they really pushing for? - Whatever it is, it sure isn’t democratic.
Waititi may wear a feather cloak, but he’s clearly taken a liking to iron fists.
The article Steven is referring to > https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360746152/david-seymour-criticises-rawiri-waititi-insane-views-about-african-leader-ibrahim-traore
Source: Facebook
The public’s starting to notice the Tribunal isn’t a referee it’s the coach of one team, wearing the jersey, calling the game, and handing out the trophies. It investigates only claims by Māori against the Crown. That’s not “neutral.” That’s an in house complaint department with no obligation to represent all New Zealanders yet it demands policies that affect everyone.
Now, with Māori specific health structures collapsing under political scrutiny (good riddance to race based bureaucracy), the Tribunal is predictably firing up the grievance engine. Apparently, disestablishing a parallel system based on ethnicity is a “Treaty breach.” Of course it is everything is, when you write the rules and then interpret them yourself.
Simeon Brown is one of the few with the spine to say healthcare should be for everyone, not a racial sorting system. And when the Tribunal tries to slap him down with another “recommendation,” it’s high time someone replied: recommendations aren’t laws, and your reach isn’t divine right.
Source: Facebook
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How Dare They Make Us Explain Ourselves! - Bureaucrats Panic Over Common Sense Bill (Regulatory Standards Bill)
Imagine the horror: a government forced to justify its actions. Ministers having to explain why they’re stomping on property rights or piling on red tape like it’s a national sport. Madness! That’s what the new regulatory principles bill proposes and naturally, it has the usual suspects in full pearl clutching mode.
The bill, backed by the government’s grown ups (for once), says laws should respect freedom of choice, property rights, the rule of law, and shouldn’t come with a small print clause that reads: “You’re paying for this forever.” Ministers would need to state openly when they’re violating those principles. In other words, if you’re going to bulldoze rights, at least have the decency to do it in daylight.
Predictably, the Left is fuming. They call it “ideological.” Translation: it’s harder now to sneak through dreamland legislation that quietly rewrites society before anyone notices. You know, like when Labour used its majority to ram through near untouchable laws, stuffed with regulatory booby traps and evergreen powers. But sure this bill is the problem.
What really scares them isn’t that the bill stops them. It doesn’t. It just exposes them. And for a political class that prefers operating behind consultation documents and urgency motions, that’s the real outrage: being held accountable in public.
Source: Facebook
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Appeasement Rd, Luxon And Maori Activists - John Porter
Luxon has placed National in a precarious position, teetering between success and failure. What Luxon fails to comprehend is that Appeasement Road is a no exit road and at the end of this road, maori activist are assembled eagerly awaiting Luxon’s arrival and Luxon will have no option but to hand over the keys to our country!
It is well passed the time where Prime Minister Luxon began to think about the people who built New Zealand and more importantly, the people who will continue to build New Zealand in the future.
Because it will not be the maori activists, those who continue to demand, and receive, more and more from the taxpayers purse; they will destroy New Zealand!
Source: BreakingViews (Comments)
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We have a "grievance industry" - Rex Anderson
Do not mistake that for a "grievance process".
Once you get your head around that fact, it becomes a lot easier to understand.
To iwi and their "Klingons", it's big business!.
Look at this "not" as an angry taxpayer.
But, from a business point of view.
This "business" employs hundreds of people, including lawyers, bogus historians, politicians, eg Willie Jackson, John Tamihere, university lecturers, Doctors, teachers, trustees on boards, some councils are stacked with gimps for the treaty troughers.
The entire education system has been "paid" to teach victimisation and guilt!
The government say claims are nearing an end?
Remember, we are talking about a "business".
Would you walk away from a business that earned you millions of dollars a year and was completely paid for by the NZ taxpayer?
Do you think treaty troughing lawyers are going to let this happen? This business attracts all the bottom feeders, the morally bankrupt.
They will not give up without a fight.
At this moment, they are gathering like "vultures" around Ngapuhi, promoting the "lie" that Maori did not cede sovereignty, to go with the other "lie" that there is partnership in the TOW!
Chris Whinlayson has spent his entire working life misrepresenting the TOW and NZ history, for a living, this is his profession!
Equally at home in "bed" with Honest Johnny Key giving away the foreshore and sea bed, or pandering to his "pet" iwi Ngai Tahu, whom he [Finlayson] is working for at the moment, according to him, they own the water!
The only way big business stops is if it's broke, bankrupt, or runs out of money. - Only you can do that.
The government will not stop these GRIFTERS, look at National, back promoting separatism and racial privilege, just as they have always done! - And always will!
Source: Facebook
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"When Myth Becomes Method: Science Bows to Spiritual Symbolism" - Steven Mark Gaskell.
It’s official: we’ve entered the age where feelings outvote facts and symbolism crushes science all under the banner of decolonisation. The new national pastime? Elevating mātauranga Māori the indigenous knowledge system to the same status as physics, chemistry, and biology.
Forget Newton. Forget Einstein. We’ve got whakapapa, atua, and taniwha to explain the workings of the universe now. And if you so much as raise an eyebrow, you’re instantly labelled racist, colonial, or worse “anti-tikanga.”
Mātauranga Māori, for the uninitiated, is a pagan spiritual, so called knowledge system passed down orally blending herbal lore, cosmology, storytelling, and environmental observation. Rich in culture? Absolutely. Valuable as heritage? Of course.
But science it is not.
At least, not in the sense of peer review, falsifiability, or replicable results those annoying colonial constructs like "proof" and "data."
But that hasn’t stopped the movement. In universities, it’s being injected into science departments like a vaccine for post-colonial guilt. In schools, children are taught that Māori gods control the weather and tides, with all the seriousness of Newton's Laws.
And scientists who dare question this ideological fusion? Silenced, doxxed, or “re-educated.”
This isn’t about celebrating culture. It’s about replacing objective inquiry with cultural ideology a political project wrapped in flax and feathers. All under the illusion of “balance” and “Treaty partnership.”
Meanwhile, a tiny but powerful elite of cultural advisors, academic bureaucrats, and treaty consultants are laughing all the way to the public funding bank, issuing “kaupapa” and “narratives” at $250/hour while real scientists leave for Australia.
So yes, let’s decolonise everything even our brains. Let's toss out proven medical science for rongoā. Let’s have engineers consult the ancestors before building bridges. Let’s do astronomy by constellation myths instead of telescopes.
Because nothing says progress like crawling backwards… at snail’s pace.
The article Steven is responding to > https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/565872/matauranga-maori-science-fair-applies-traditional-thinking-to-modern-day-problems
Source: Facebook
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From Feather Cloaks to Fascist Fandom: Rawiri Waititi’s New "Hero" Exposes the Real TPM Agenda - Steven Mark Gaskell
Just when you thought Rawiri Waititi couldn’t get any more performative, he declares a new “modern day hero” and it’s not a kaumātua or Māori pioneer. No, it’s Ibrahim Traoré, a West African military strongman who seized power in a coup, shut down elections, cozied up to Russia, and minor detail allegedly oversaw the massacre of over 220 civilians, including children.
That’s who the co leader of Te Pāti Māori idolises. Not a freedom fighter. A textbook tyrant.
Deputy PM David Seymour called it a threat to democracy and he’s not wrong. TPM’s constant cries of “decolonise” now appear to mean “embrace dictators who murder their own people but say mean things about the West.”
While media outlets stay silent (as usual), the rest of us should ask: if this is TPM’s idea of leadership, what kind of “sovereignty” are they really pushing for? - Whatever it is, it sure isn’t democratic.
Waititi may wear a feather cloak, but he’s clearly taken a liking to iron fists.
The article Steven is referring to > https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360746152/david-seymour-criticises-rawiri-waititi-insane-views-about-african-leader-ibrahim-traore
Source: Facebook
1 comment:
Lovely little piece on science vs myth and magic above.
A major problem here is that science degree programmes do not include mandatory courses on scientific epistemology (the ways in which we determine what is true - in science, through empirical validation). We produce science graduates who in most cases have a 'feel' for what is science and what isn't, but have no formal training in epistemological reasoning processes. They often become rather tongue-tied when pressed about the difference between science and myth/magic. At worst, they regard science as yet another set of 'beliefs' no more valid than any other, thereby opening the door for the false equivalence between these fundamentally different sets of axioms.
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