Manifesto for New Zealand

For the next 24 hours my readers can download a free copy of my Manifesto for New Zealand. It is a short read that solves NZ's problems. There's no need to overthink things, just keep it simple, and don't copy Australia. 

I drew the cover, it shows all the proven oil and gas strike zones onshore and offshore NZ. Most of these areas have only been minimally drilled. 

Download here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FVWF7352

Fix New Zealand

California Faces Fuel Crisis

Hard to believe I know, but oil rich California has been so badly managed, the lower supply of oil has resulted in expensive fuel prices at the pump. Who'd a thunk? The state is now reliant on non-US supply despite sitting on the resources to drive the whole state.

This is a lot like New Zealand. It now lacks a refinery and is wholly reliant on overseas fuel supplies, despite sitting on a mountain of crude.

Is this a conspiracy to collapse the economies of both territories, or just stupidity on the part of governments?

Australia a Proving Ground

The ban on those under 16 using social media is another of the many measures that get tried out in Australia first, and if it works, governments will implement it worldwide.

Australian Banks Ripping Off Customers

In New Zealand, Westpac Bank has gone in the opposite direction in response to the Reserve Bank of New Zealand lowering its Official Cash Rate or OCR.

There have been a lot of excuses given by the bank and economists about why this move. That's because one would expect banks to lower mortgage interest rates when the Reserve Bank lowers the OCR. I think Westpac has raised interest rates to prop up Australia. New Zealanders are subsidising the Australians.

Here's my thinking: Australia has a major problem. China is slowing up and will not be buying the same volume of coal and iron ore, simply because it won't be making as much stuff and won't need the amount of steel it has previously. Australia needs this business as it lacks its own industry. Australia has always thought it a good idea to rip raw materials out of the ground, export, then take the money and buy flat screen TV's with the proceeds.

Australia is also faced with higher inflationary expectations. They've mismanaged their economy, and expect Kiwis to pay. It's as simple as that.

NZ should stay the course. Inflation does appear under control and confidence has returned. Kiwis should think carefully about whether moving to Australia is a good idea as there is a real risk of being stranded without a job. 

As a side note, Australia is currently heavily promoting itself to Kiwis. They're using positive and negative campaigns. The positive ones mention better quality of life and higher pay. The negative campaign says NZ is falling apart (it isn't), and that everyone is leaving (they aren't). This kind of advertising can have real consequences. I recently saw a young doctor originally from Christchurch, on YouTube describing her life on the Sunshine Coast now she's moved to Australia. She described how she'd gone from receiving free meals at Christchurch Public Hospital, and all learning materials being paid for, to Australia where she has to pay for meals and pay for everything else. Then, she described trying to get onto her speciality course, and not being able to. Well, no shit Sherlock, the Australians will always prefer their own, the immigrant is there to work, not to get ahead. And based on the Sunshine Coast, a swamp two hours from Brisbane. She gave up living in the most positive city with a wonderful buzz, to go to the Sunshine Coast to be eaten by mosquitoes. And despite the negatives, she remained positive about her move; all I can to that is a fool and her money are soon parted. 

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/581436/finance-minister-advises-mortgage-holders-to-shop-around-as-westpac-increases-rates

Coronation Street Dire

Will someone please push the cancel button on this snore fest of a once great ITV soap opera.

Coronation Viewing Figures Plummet

Japan Earthquake Prediction

Stefan Burns is a geophysicist who has been knocking it out of the park recently. He accurately predicted recent volcanic eruptions, and now he's accurately predicted the current earthquake swarms, the worst of which was a Richter 7.6 earthquake off Japan. He blames recent activity of the sun, fascinating stuff.

Reform UK and Conservatives Lead

The most recent public opinion poll in the UK:

Reform 31%

Conservatives 20%

Greens 18%

Labour (government) 14%

At this rate, if an election was held tomorrow, Reform UK and the Conservatives would likely form a coalition government.

(Pollster: Find Out Now)

What Went Wrong? Jacinda Ardern

Graham Norton has asked Jacinda Ardern the question on his TV show in the UK. As per usual, she makes it all about herself and she blames the people of New Zealand. What went wrong?

Let's get this straight, Jacinda Ardern was not elected prime minister in 2017; she came second, but a dithering old fool by the name of Winston Peters selected her. She became prime minister through the back door. Then, she was reelected in 2020 on the back of a rigged General Election. 

Ardern was and remains the worst prime minister in New Zealand's history. She was an authoritarian monster who developed a two-tier system, where the underclasses were treated with contempt. She is one of the few prime ministers to have actually sought to harm the country, and succeeded in that endeavour, as few pushed back against her tyrannical rule. NZ may never recover; that's how much damage she has done.

In New Zealand, apart from a few fans that remain, she is loathed. She has to stay away from the place, a permanent exile. Good luck, US and UK, and please do NZ a favour, keep her. 

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360910644/graham-norton-asks-jacinda-ardern-what-went-wrong-her-popularity-new-zealand

Rigged Rugby World Cup 2027

I can see World Rugby is still up to their old tricks. I watched the draw for each group online and noticed that the teams were drawn from barrels that you could not see into. Not only that, but people reached into the barrels containing team names, and drew them out of this covered barrel by hand. Not a good look, why did they not have a machine tumbling the barrels, and then drawing the names automatically?

The structure of the tournament appears designed to allow host Australia to win. We have the ridiculous situation where New Zealand could play South Africa in the quarter-finals. Basically, the final at the quarters stage. I'm not going to be watching, what a farce. The way things are structured, both New Zealand and South Africa would be better off coming second in their groups. Make it make sense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2027_Men%27s_Rugby_World_Cup

Candace Owens Is Not Suicidal

The world has gone mad.

Solar Activity and Need to Stay Manual

Airbus grounded their A320 fleet worldwide, and this was due to the potential of solar activity impacting their aircraft electronics. However, this may only be the start of things as we need electronics in every part of our lives, but the sun right now is very active. This activity can knock out electronics, effectively cutting off electricity as well. This solar activity may also trigger volcanoes and we've seen multiple eruptions off the back of this solar activity.

You just know our political leaders will know nothing about this. But, my advice is to keep some cash to hand, you may need it.

Will Anthony Fauci Face Justice?

Orange suits Dr Anthony Fauci. I agree with the Swedish guy:

Climate Catastrophe

Just playing around, totally unscientific this, but having a look at temperatures on Earth over the last few million years, what is all the panic about?

Below you'll see I've drawn on a graph, two lines, the orange one to my thinking is the ideal temperature for humans on Earth, while the black vertical line indicates 5 million years ago. Since then, we've always been colder, but right now we appear to be in the hottie goodie zone, ideal for plant life and mammals. 

Basically, drill baby drill.

Unscientific Musing/Ideal Temperature Range

Prof. Sunetra Gupta Comments

 The UK Covid inquiry report is a disgrace, a cover up, just a political exercise. 

Bay of Riches

Here's an idea, New Zealand's Poverty Bay is a beautiful area and appears misnamed. Why not change its name to Bay of Riches?

Golden Bay, at the top of the South Island of NZ was originally named Murderers Bay, but they thought of a far better name, reflecting the beaches of golden sand in the region. Likewise, the North Island has the Bay of Plenty, it is a bay of plenty, apparently. 

Bay of Riches, where the largest city on the bay is Gisborne. Watch the city boom as it jettisons its poverty label.

Is China Lying About Its Population?

I wonder, does China have a population of 1.4 billion? The claim is that they're lying, and their population is much less. There are ways of working out what their population is, without having a census. We could look at the number of telephone connections, how many cars are on the road, how many flights from city to city, that sort of thing. 

Another way of looking at it is to compare China with India, where we know how many people there are. We can look at the congestion, keeping in mind the difference in territorial space available for occupation. Bear in mind too that both countries have uninhabitable areas, where it is too mountainous, or there is no water.

Below, I've inserted a map, placing India over China. Lifestyle factors have to be taken into account, such as how many people in a family live under one roof. However, it is hard to ignore reports of empty cities in China. You will have seen the stories of cities that are new, that could house a million people, but where they're mostly empty, with only 20-30k living there. When I see such stories, I think they've built in too much capacity, but the population did not grow to fill the space. That may indicate population decline.

I simply don't know the answer, I'm just putting it out there for consideration:

China v India

China Collapsing?

This could be propaganda, but if there is any truth to it, then the world is going into a serious downturn. The below report says that migrant workers in China are going home early, well before the Chinese New Year as there is no work. These workers are itinerant day workers, they work in places like restaurants and construction sites. They drive the Chinese economy.

Migrant workers come from the rural areas into the cities. Their incomes keep their families back in the villages alive. Their early return is a serious problem as they boost the population in rural areas, and they must be fed. This leaves less food crops to be sold. 

Seeing this, I thought Australia is in serious trouble too as they rely on China buying their mine output. Currently, Australia is desperately promoting itself to try and keep immigrants coming in, bringing their skills and money with them. New Zealanders should think very carefully about whether going to Australia is a good idea because if their economy does collapse, there will be no lifeline for them, and the NZ government will not pay for them to come home.

Rugby: New Zealand v Wales

Rugby - On Saturday New Zealand's All Blacks secured a comfortable 52-26 victory over their old foes, Wales, but they looked fragile at times; they often lost possession when hard on attack and out wide the NZ defense looked exposed. Wales are weak at the moment and should not have been allowed 26 points. In a way, the score flattered the All Blacks as Wales looked better than the score suggests. 

I see a weakness with the current Wales team, their forwards lack mobility and good ball-handling skills. That's an area they need to work hard on.

My main complaint is with refereeing and in particular the video referee. Once again we saw the ridiculous situation where the All Blacks were penalised against, yet they went on to score a try anyway, which was converted, only to have all that effort cancelled and made to come back for a penalty in their favour. Make it make sense.

Then, another NZ try was awarded on field by the referee, correctly, but she was clearly intimidated into reversing her decision based on words said from the video referees. The referee had done a good job, and this interference ruins the game.

Rugby is falling in popularity these days, and this is because the referees do not allow the game to flow. And then, the video referees overrule and interfere.

I hope R360 rugby is successful and that they make changes. The current games are simply not good viewing.

UK Covid Inquiry - Womble Report

I was right, the UK Covid Inquiry report says exactly what I predicted it would say; more lockdowns, sooner, harder. Authoritarians have to be ever more authoritarian.

There was no pandemic, it was the flu rebranded. The whole lockdown was designed to create fear and panic and to exert control. Likewise, the restrictions on travel, followed by the jab mandates were not about health, it was softening up for later more draconian measures, part of the global coup of 2020 and 2021.

Reports coming out always side with authority, they never side with the people. If such reports are critical, they always say how the authorities failed to be more authoritarian. They never side with freedom and relying on natural immunity.

Doubt what I'm saying? Head over to my useful links page, it is full of material you need to read. For instance, did you know that a study in Japan found that the more jabs you have the more likely you are to die? The control group is all those who received no jab, they're all doing well.

Once more, for those down the back of the room - there was no pandemic, you were hoodwinked, lied to, manipulated, extorted and ultimately experimented on, and they didn't care if they killed you. Who is they? Your government, that's who they are.

Oh, and if you're reading this, welcome, buy a lottery ticket as you're lucky; Google still scrubs any talk like this, it makes you wonder why they'd do that, eh, if I was the one talking nonsense.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/20/too-little-too-late-damning-report-condemns-uk-covid-response

The idea that a lockdown should not have happened in the circumstances was false, the authors said. Not having one would have caused loss of life “on a scale that was unconscionable and unacceptable”.

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If a lockdown had been imposed on 16 March, a week earlier than took place, modelling suggests this could have cut the number of deaths in England in the first wave of the virus by almost half, equating to 23,000 lives saved, the inquiry authors say.

MTG Sounding Presidential

Do you think Marjorie Taylor Greene is preparing to run for president? She's sounding more presidential every day. She comes from a construction background, so she knows how to get things done.