Smith K. Stead

@smithkstead.bsky.social

146 Followers 167 Following

"I believe there's deep seated trouble throughout New Zealand" - Sir David Joseph Dobbyn

photocopies of Phil Baker's New Zealand passport and drivers' license, and his wife Myla Trestiza's Filipino birth certificate, Social Security card, drivers' license, passport, and green card
4:07pm - Luxon’s office hasn’t responded so Stuff asks again. 4:32pm - Luxon’s office replies saying: “The letter was sent to Chris Hipkins yesterday afternoon. The government has a number of times publicly called on the Opposition to secure New Zealanders’ future energy supply by supporting the lifting of the ban on oil and gas exploration. “That call was repeated in the letter,” a spokesperson wrote. 4:34pm - Stuff asks Luxon’s office if it sent the letter to the Herald. 4:54pm - A spokesperson from Luxon’s office replies: “I have nothing further to add.”
New Zealand soldiers were, of course, particularly racist against local peoples. Milnes’ stellar 1999 thesis “Imperial Soldiers?” examined New Zealand and ANZAC troops’ views during the campaign, finding “virtually every letter, book, and diary contained some reference to the Arabs reflecting the New Zealanders’ racial views”. One wrote that “no wonder the old inhabitants of Palestine had to be destroyed... many a chap is disgusted with the people.” The Aide de Camp to the commander of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles wrote that “they [the Arab camel drivers] all want rounding up and shot”. Another wrote that one village was a “God forsaken place, and only fit for n****ers to live in”. These racist views extended to their treatment of the local populace, including stealing crops and livestock, the “concentration” of nomadic Bedouin tribes into camps (or torture to find out if they were spies), trashing bazaars, and indifference to or active participation in their deaths. One soldier noted in his autobiography that the soldiers all laughed when the Arab spectators were shelled during a battle. Gaza City was actually bombed 3 separate times by British forces in 1917, including the use of chemical weapons during the Second Battle of Gaza. The below photo shows New Zealand soldiers donning gas masks, captioned “Gaza Beauty Show”. 4,000 gas shells were fired into the city. The day that British forces took Gaza was the same day that the Balfour Declaration was issued, creating Jewish Palestine.
RNZ article - Facial tech company wanted ‘pragmatic policy interventions’
So as it turns out, 13 out of the top 20 stakeholders in NZME are also oil/gas/mineral investors accounting for over 70% of the shares, the chair also Chairs Genesis Energy, and is also Deputy Chair of the NZ Initiative (Atlas NZ).
Chart of global share of steel production from 1650-current day