mickey mouse country with an appropriately mickey mouse leader

they're dabbing on us folks

Best thing about this fuck-up by the PR cohort is we can now assume Ensor is a prime leak candidate for when National want a willing reporter to run PR & interference for them. Wild to get a glimpse of how NZ media are participants in these back channels www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

lmao "Kash Patel gave New Zealand officials 3D-printed guns illegal to possess under local laws" ... "A spokesperson for the spy agencies described the gift as "a challenge coin display stand" that included the 3D-printed inoperable weapon "as part of the design"."

certainly interesting to see national MP chris penk following a 6 day old account titled "Reform NZ", which started spewing out zionist propaganda around the time of peters’ speech, and is now shifting to bargain bin great replacement trite

from craig renney: the new billions in "infrastructure investment" the coalition has announced is more motorways and not much else

it’s kinda shocking there’s no NZ hidden camera prank show on real estate agents running open homes. 30 people showing up to start a house party. bank robbers running through and into the backyard. removing all the screws out of the furniture. the schadenfreude the nation needs

global north states are now reaching unprecedented levels of capture by capital, and now have to make the choice between actually taxing wealth more effectively or pulling the plug on the whole party. i wonder which one they're going to pick?

there are some *very* clear moral imperatives developing in terms of how we associate with people like this

Just last year NZ’s military was training alongside Israel, and here’s a valuable look at the ghastly legacy of NZ’s Mounted Rifles Brigade in Palestine during and after WWI (the brigade consisted of some regiments with a history of subjugating Māori in the 19th Century) #nzpol 👇

Exactly. Did you know that Winston Peters enabled the Springbok Tour to go ahead as he worked against a NZ judge that tried to stop the springbok tour from going ahead, using parliamentary privilege to attack him #nzpol

It even extends here to Aotearoa, during a visit to Cuba members of Ngā Tamatoa Donna Awatere Huata and Ripeka Evans met with members of the Palestinian Liberation Front, and they inspired them to start the militant 1981 Springbok Tour protest to oppose apartheid in South Africa. Nelson Mandela said

Glenn Inwood, a pro-whaling and tobacco PR person, ran Resistance Kiwi. On his website, he promoted "freedom" candidates looking to "refresh local democracy." One of those candidates was Ray Chung. In late September, a new voting guide popped up, also supporting Chung, called Better Wellington. /3

"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."

Perhaps this is us, and has always been us. Perhaps this is what New Zealand is.

NZ entomologist george vernon hudson was the first person to propose daylight saving time, as he wanted more time to look at and collect bugs after work

peters says recognising palestine would embolden hamas, which funnily enough didn't apply to inviting myanmar's military junta to NZ-hosted ASEAN summits in 2024 after they'd been informally blocked from attending since they seized power

NOW ON EXIT FROM AFFCO: in light of NZ's failure to recognise palestine, the story of the new zealand mounted rifles brigade and their role in the WWI sinai-palestine campaign, the war that brought palestine into the british empire and later created israel www.exitfromaffco.com/p/gaza-beaut...

the new zealand company marketed an exhibition of "the longest painting in the world" in london in 1849, an expansive panorama designed to advertise new zealand as a new frontier for settlement, with vast "untouched" lands ready to be colonised

Smith once again going where other mainstream journalists fear to tread - holding powerful people to account

if you want to know why people like peter thiel have an obsession with NZ, you can thank jacob rees-mogg’s father for writing a book that references NZ as the ideal place to wait out a global collapse. PM luxon is now touting the country as “a safe haven in a very volatile and uncertain world”

OUT NOW ON EXIT FROM AFFCO: a short history exploring why "prominent NZers" keep on ending up in court, including the birth of the colony, the institutional cover-ups across NZ history, and the new elite building bunkers in the south island www.exitfromaffco.com/p/heiress-ki...

he looks like a cut matrix reloaded character here

it's cool how when you're great friends with luxon (and the CEO of private healthcare firm tend) you can text luxon's office staff to figure out how to "best get in front of Simeon Brown urgently"

OUT NOW ON EXIT FROM AFFCO: the prelude to the 1951 waterfront dispute, New Zealand's enlistment into WWIII against the Third World, and the blossoming of Cold War anti-communism. www.exitfromaffco.com/p/the-1951-w...

next EXIT FROM AFFCO post will be out soon, on US meddling in the NZ labour movement, the 1951 waterfront lockout, secret CIA strikebreaking flights (with help from the dulles bros), and the birth of the post-WWII NZ security state. subscribe / read the first post below

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 According to sources inside of caucus, prospective media material drafting for 2026 contenders to replace Luxon is already taking place. Insiders with knowledge of the leadership challenge say that #BrownPugh is so far top of the ticket

“it’s great if you’re a white nationalist in the NZDF, we commend you for it actually, but you fucked it up by falling for an intelligence agent asking you to give her NZDF rifle training manuals and satellite photos of military bases”

private intel company auror is now working w/ justice min goldsmith “to strengthen legislation to provide more certainty for tech providers” on facial recognition, with the privacy commissioner saying in june biometric data can now be shared between retail companies

it’s hilarious to say there’s a member of NZ parliament who’s failed the voight-kampff test

interesting to see where people’s priorities lie

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FIRST POST ON EXIT FROM AFFCO: Codename "Muldoon" - the Global War on Terror informant paid by NZ intelligence to infiltrate anti-war groups, vegan activist groups, unions, and political parties for a decade open.substack.com/pub/smithkst...

Absolutely applaud this type of direct action. Rakon is the key global supplier of crystal oscillators that turn 'dumb' bombs into 'smart' bombs - they will be being used to murder civilians. Wherever you are tonight Syd Parks thank you!

me and my followers meeting up for the launch of the first Smith K. Stead article tomorrow morning

the auckland headquarters of NZ tech company rakon were broken into and vandalised today, due to rakon being the sole supplier for a key component in US-made "smart bombs" currently being used in the gaza genocide

a peace action ōtautahi member, singled out by winston peters last week on twitter for asking tamatha paul about police brutality, has just been taken from their home by police at night for “attending a meeting”

very interesting that NZME hasn’t published a single article about timothy jago, wonder if it has anything to do with their chair also being deputy chair of the atlas-connected NZ initiative

following US crackdowns on the church, mormons visited NZ in 1886 and met king tāwhiao to discuss purchasing land for mass mormon settlement in the king country. tāwhiao was interested, offering to convert as well, but the church rejected it

Why does this seem like exactly the same strategy used by National/ACT to sneak radical policy in via thinktank with their curriculum 'working group'??

pretty funny how much of global politics discourse is ignoring the observable reality of charts like this

got suspended on twitter for an “inauthentic account”. if i don’t get unbanned i’ll probably move a lot of posting here, site’s really starting to circle the drain

when i was last in wellington, i took my father to the city to sea bridge. i asked him how they even made such a monument. he looked at me, with tears in his eyes, and said “we don’t know how to anymore.”

This is absolute red scare shit at this point everyone involved should be ashamed this is doxing, and the only public interest argument is one being actively manufactured by Stuff and the right-wing neo-cons and *cultists* who are feeding her information

following US crackdowns on the church, mormons visited NZ in 1886 and met king tāwhiao to discuss purchasing land for mass mormon settlement in the king country. tāwhiao was interested, offering to convert as well, but the church rejected it

testing. testing. testes