Hegseth Calls Out New Zealand

Well, it's been a long wait, but finally the US is calling out New Zealand for its lack of defence spending. Currently, New Zealand cannot even secure its own air space and it has naval vessels tied up because it has no crew for the ships. And even if crew existed, it's doubtful NZ could even find the money to pay them, within existing budgets. 

I've often written about this parlous state of affairs. I have tracked the decline in NZ defence spending to the start of NZ's MMP method of choosing political leaders (MMP = Mixed Member Proportional). From that date, 1996, defence spending started to fall off a cliff. The reason for this is easily explained; to form a government, the various parties contesting elections must form coalitions and make deals. Defence is always the unwanted cousin, and so is quickly traded away. Thus, now NZ's military barely exists. 

The current NZ government plans may as well be filed under, believe it when you see it. They're all talk, making endless announcements of announcements, going to do this, intending to do that, conducting consultations, examinations, it is most unseemly. 

However, the only issue I have is with the way the US is going about this; it won't have the desired effect. Usually, NZ is spoken to behind the scenes, quietly. With the approach the US Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, is taking, don't expect NZ to spend more on American equipment.

Trump to Hand Falklands to Milei?

Upset that the United Kingdom has not joined the US war with Iran, it is being reported that Donald Trump may withdraw his support for the UK holding the Falkland Islands, effectively handing the islands to Argentina. Readers may remember that back in the early 1980's, Argentina invaded the Falklands and the UK went to war over it, and won the islands back. 

A bit of history; the Falklands are part of Britain, and Argentina has no rightful claim over the islands. The islands have also played a pivotal role in the Royal Navy's control of the South Atlantic. The British Empire, at one point, controlled all of the main pinch points, the North and South Atlantic, the Mediterranean via Gibraltar, Malta and Cyprus, the Strait of Malacca at Singapore, Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Aden and access to the Red Sea, the Suez Canal, Strait of Hormuz, Cape of Good Hope, and the Tasman Sea through to the Southern Ocean. There was nowhere for an enemy to go, literally nowhere. 

So, the British have some serious soul searching to do. Are they going to grow a spine or shrink to nothingness?

James Carville on Trump

The conclusion must be, Donald Trump intends harm on the United States:

47th President of the United States

Donald Trump got to the finish line and has been sworn in. Now, let the fun begin. This is going to be entertaining. https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-sworn-47th-president-170607947.html

Joe Biden issued more pardons just before heading out the door. These pardons do indicate potential wrongdoing on his part: he has pardoned family members preemptively, and the reason for that must be because he doesn't want family members being pressured to give evidence against him. Consider, if Biden could have pardoned himself, he probably would have. 

Then, Biden has also pardoned the January 6 committee and Anthony Fauci. Oh really, so the election WAS rigged and the thing in 2020 was a political virus, not a real one.  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8r5g5dezk4o 

The US economy will rocket, simply because it appears Net Zero is dead in the water. Unleashing America's mineral wealth will bring prices down worldwide, we all stand to gain. EV's are going the way of the dinosaur, they're useless for most purposes anyway.

With fuel prices coming down, the already record spend on US infrastructure will ramp up even more. The boom will come off this kind of construction activity.

Will the US forcefully take back the Panama Canal, and will China now take Taiwan? Both are unlikely, Panama will buckle, and I remind people that China will bluster but do nothing, and that's because they're scared of Japan. Japan want to have easy and ready access to South-east Asia, they view the region as their branch office and they're not going to tolerate China blocking off access. 

What role will New Zealand play? New Zealand must change direction swiftly, starting with getting a military. It has become a complete laughing stock. The National Party has been moving to the left once again, essentially sounding like Labour Lite. On Sunday, I heard the Minister of Education, Erica Stanford blaming parents for the fall in student achievement standards. No, it's down to the lazy teachers. Stop with the nonsense Conehead Luxon, the numpty Prime Minister, get on track, and to do that start by growing a backbone.

Is the UK's Prime Minister, Keir Starmer toast? I think so, Trump must insist he be replaced. Watch this space.

Barack Obama

I've talked about Barack Obama before, bit I cannot recall devoting one post to him alone. Well, here goes, but I hope this won't take long.

Who is Barack Obama? OK, I know, he was the 44th President of the United States. But, on a deeper level, do we really know him or anything about him? On looking closely, I've concluded, we know next to nothing.

How many Presidents have had two completely different names? Obama, when growing up in Indonesia was enrolled in school as Barry Soetoro. Then, later when at university we find he has become Barack Obama. Supporters of Obama will say this is a minor issue, but I usually reply; if a Republican candidate had this background and two completely different names, would that candidate get what appears to be a free pass? I don't think so, just look at George W Bush, his every move has been examined and every action pored over.

There is really something very peculiar about Barack Obama. About 14 years ago I was given a copy of his first autobiography. I was really happy to receive it, and started reading with great interest. This book I found to be very well written, not all of it by the same hand though, but certainly 80% of it written by the same person. But then, as I got deeper what I found disturbed me; here was a narrow minded man, a nasty little man, conceited, vain, bigoted and altogether lacking charity. This man had been elected (or appointed, take your pick) to the highest office, and become the most powerful man in the world.

I stopped reading at the halfway stage, to continue would have made me sick. I still wonder how it is that so many readers do not see this lack of character.

When looking at Obama, I concentrate on his three years at Columbia University and then his first fulltime job in New York. We know very little about this period with any certainty. Obama is a mystery. Where are his roommates talking about what he is like, his classmates and any employers he had while working part-time during his studies?  Then, after graduation, he has embellished his record with his first job. Obama describes himself as working for a Wall Street firm, being a manager and having a secretary. None of this is true, and we know that because one of his workmates at the place he did work at, has talked about it. Obama worked a low level job at a business newsletter publisher.

Then, he gets into Harvard Law School, and soon after writes his first memoir. His publisher, in promoting this new young writer described him as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, and born in Kenya. Was this simply further embellishment to make the young writer seem more exotic? Then, as a practising lawyer, who were some of his clients, what were the cases he worked on and did he do court work? There is evidence of his work, but for a graduate of Harvard he seems to have kept a very low profile.

Then, Obama did not hold Wall Street to account for causing the Global Financial Crisis. He was a servant of Wall Street. We are living through it still.

I have seen it said that Barack Obama destroyed modern post-war America. Was this intentional? Rebuilding it will take generations, but it cannot be rebuilt at all until Americans realise that Barack Obama was the worst ever President of the United States.

Kamala Harris v Donald Trump

I'm noticing the rank hypocrisy of right-of-centre commentators criticising Kamala Harris for any reason, while ignoring the obvious failings of Donald J Trump. The worst form a criticism being levelled at Kamala Harris amounts to nothing more than slut-shaming. So, let's balance this up and have an objective look at both main candidates for the US Presidential elections in November.

Kamala Harris, at 59 seems youthful compared to Donald Trump, and for that matter, youthful compared to the current President who suffers dementia. She's intelligent, a lawyer and someone who has held high office; she's never lost an election. Her path to the top is by way of District Attorney, Attorney-General of California, US Senator for California and now Vice President of the United States. She's been married the once and remains married to this day. As a politician, she is fairly conservative and considered a safe pair of hands. On a personal level, she's self-made; and both parents were immigrants.

Donald Trump received a sound education at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He inherited part of his father, Fred Trump's massive wealth which was amassed by owning something like 30,000 apartments in New York. Donald Trump took his father's wealth and made it go backwards. That's right, had the Donald invested wisely, he'd be the richest man alive today. He has several company failures to his credit. His record as a politician is mixed, he won his first effort by winning in the all-important Electoral College despite losing the overall popular vote to Hillary Clinton. His second effort resulted in failure, he lost in the Electoral College this time. The result in 2020 has been justifiably criticised, but it should be noted that Donald Trump was the sitting President and therefore, in the best position to do something about all that rigging. 

Donald Trump implemented Operation Warp Speed, which has resulted in the death and injury of millions. This should never be forgotten.

What chance does each have? As things stand right now, my analysis sees Donald Trump ahead in the Electoral College. There are 538 votes available in 2024, meaning 270 votes are required to secure the Presidency. I have Donald Trump with 363 and Kamala Harris with 175. Thus, Kamala Harris has to pick up 95 votes to win. 

This is where it gets interesting. After the outpouring of sympathy for Donald Trump following the attempt on his life, the Democratic Party pivoted swiftly and got rid of the very old, pale stale male, Joe Biden. He's still President for now, but Kamala Harris may only be minutes away from ascending the throne, without an election. She attracts a different demographic; college educated women, Afro-Americans and Asians. This could be enough to see her win key battleground states. Take Georgia, currently considered leaning Trump, its population is 32% Afro-American. Another battleground state is Pennsylvania, made up of 12% Afro-Americans, and 31% of women there have a bachelor's degree or higher. 

If she wins those two states, she's now 60 votes away from the prize. All those key swing states have demographics more aligned to Harris than Joe Biden. Donald Trump should be worried, and he is judging by the attack ads that suddenly appeared.

Will RFK Jr have an impact, the way Ross Perot did back in the 90's? He'll attract the college educated and freer thinking voters, but my guess is they're in states that already heavily lean to Kamala Harris, and he won't overturn the result as she's so far out in front anyway. But, who knows, I'm ready to accept RFK Jr may cause an upset. It'd be interesting to see him holding enough Electoral College votes to prevent 270 being reached by either Harris or Trump.

Another factor is how the deep state, swamp creatures and assorted authoritarians view the two main contenders. I believe, the reason they tried to kill Donald Trump was not because he isn't part of the swamp - he very much is - but that he's seen as unpredictable. The swamp likes Kamala Harris as she's likely to be reliable. 

Those dismissing Kamala Harris are getting things badly wrong in my opinion. 

If Trump Was President Again

Would things be any different if Donald Trump was President again? Well, there would be fewer wars.

Things we learnt during 2022

What a year 2022 has been. Just think of all we have learnt. Conspiracy theories became conspiracy fact. Makes one wonder what 2023 has in store.

Here's a quick list of what we have learnt:

• Twitter conspires with governments to shut down dissenting political opinion. The great expulsion of Twitter users during January and February 2021 was real; 
• Facebook do the same.
• Twitter hires a lot of former FBI people and Facebook a lot of former CIA people. Are they really former?
• The CIA killed JFK.
• Bill Gates cannot satisfactorily explain why he was hanging out so much with Jeffry Epstein.
• The Ukraine appears so important to the US that they've pretty much written Ukraine a blank cheque;
• Crypto exchange FTX appears to have siphoned funds back from the Ukraine and into the coffers of politicians in the US;
• Sam Bankman-Fried is the fall guy.
• Russia can do fine despite sanctions;
• Western Europe and the rest of the developed world are going to freeze and suffer crippling inflation because they do not understand that Russia can do fine despite sanctions;
• The developed world, but Western Europe in particular, are committing the biggest act of self-harm in human history.
• Covid was a scam;
• Lockdowns killed and are going to kill more people than Covid;
• Some colds are worse than Covid.
• The mRNA jab from Pfizer is killing and injuring millions and no-one is allowed to talk about it;
• The MSM are complicit;
• Excess mortality is a thing, currently running at 15% in New Zealand alone.
• The Queen died and was a nice old lady;
• Her son the new King Charles is a nice chap but appears a bit weak;
• Prince Harry is a plonker.
• The western world is hellbent on introducing central bank digital currencies and social credit systems. The whole Covid scam was a trial run leading up to this;
• Now we have the 15 minute city, where you'll be locked in your zones;
• This all sounds very China;
• China is beginning to fall apart with demonstrations across the country and minorities are being persecuted relentlessly;
• Lockdowns are used to suppress political dissent;
• Xi Jinping could well be mad.
• Elections are rigged everywhere.
• Supply chains are a mess.
• Our own governments hate us;
• Some people remain blind and believe the lies because the truth hurts so much and is so unpalatable.

Did I miss anything? 

The Bond Villain Hypothesis

It has occurred to me that the current crisis, a potentially civilisation ending event, is due to a Bond Villain. I notice Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying are often talking about why important people would do what they do regarding Covid-19 and how unscientific it all is. They promoted the Wuhan lab leak theory and were proven correct. If anyone knows them or has some kind of contact, by all means share this post with them. I use my real name and can be called, my number is in the Christchurch phone book. 

What started this hypothesis is by observing the apparently strong similarity between New South Wales and New Zealand. But if we back the truck up, at one point New South Wales wasn't like New Zealand at all. It had minimal lockdown, if you even call it that. Then, suddenly they're all over it, if anything being more authoritarian than New Zealand. 

But if we look at the two governing administrations, they're dissimilar and do not share the same political dogma. In New South Wales it is the Liberal party, in New Zealand the Labour party. They're traditional rivals and have been such for over a hundred years. 

The hypothesis is this: one person or one organisation currently holds their finger on the trigger and is issuing all instructions. Governments must comply, and if they fail to, their country or life on the planet will be totally destroyed. 

Rationale: the similarity in approaches by governments which have no ideological parallels supports this hypothesis. Worldwide, governments departed from the UN prescribed pandemic playbook, and adopted a new approach altogether. This new approach was first used in Wuhan. 

But is this finger on the trigger, a trigger to what exactly? A switch to turn off banking? A switch to turn off biological life? A space weapon that will destroy the planet? What? It has to be very powerful to get all governments complying. Any resistance is extinguished. Look at the President of Tanzania. There have been others too. Why now? Like a chess game, the Bond Villain has the world in Check. Not Checkmate yet as that is game over. Feedback appreciated.

Fahrenheit 451 is Now

 Incredible, I'm living Fahrenheit 451.

The dystopian future is here. This is it right now. The key equivalences:

Everyone lives in the here and now, there is no literature, no debate, no thought, just immediate satisfaction, endless masturbation, everyone consumes trivia with glee while being cruel toward anyone stepping out of line. The TV reinforces this by serving up endless drivel of no consequence.

In Fahrenheit 451 books are banned. But today, it's the internet that is censored. We cannot say things that are not approved and licensed - fact checked. Meanwhile books are not encouraged in schools. Schooling is indoctrination, not a place for questioning.

The police now enforce correct behaviours. Crime has become irrelevant and perhaps even encouraged to keep everyone on their toes. People are encouraged to dob anyone in who doesn't behave. Nasty.

I saw the 1966 movie from the novel back in the 60's, but at a relatively young age it went over my head a little. Believe it or not my favourite movies from the period were Le Mans (1971), Zulu (1964), Charge of the Light Brigade (1968), Battle of Britain (1969) and Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965). However on a Lufthansa flight from Munich to Tokyo in January 2019 (remember when travel was allowed?) I saw it again. It contains far more intellectual content than I appreciated back in the day. I suggest taking the time to view it.

Conspiracy or Conspiracy Theory?

We have conspiracies and conspiracy theories. In this context, a conspiracy constitutes a secret plan to do something unlawful or harmful and if not exactly either, to collude in such a way that another group is deprived while the conniving group are advantaged.

A conspiracy theory is similar. It holds that some secretive or covert group is responsible for unexplained or unexplainable events.

I can usually dismiss most conspiracy theories. That's because they often lack key components that - prima facie - create doubt or suspicion. Most conspiracy theories are simply attempts by rational people to make sense of a conundrum, circumstance or happening that they cannot or will not understand as they lack facts, a clear method for solving the problem, or don't have the time to bother nutting it out and so go with how they feel.

How I begin to unravel a conspiracy theory is by looking at the number of whistle-blowers. A lack of them is not a good sign. Then I look for corroborating evidence. This is how you establish fact. If you have one person saying something then that is fine, but they may be wrong, or their recollection flawed. It's a start but it doesn't confirm that what has happened happened. How we get to that point is by having other accounts, preferably from those not immediately associated with the original testimony, that 'corroborate' the story even if they don't exactly agree. Then lastly, we have uncomfortable circumstance, the type of thing that screams - funny that, what a coincidence.

I'll give you two examples to illustrate.

JFK being shot. Clearly, this is theory as there isn't much to go on as there is a lack of whistle-blowers, and most accounts tend to agree with one another. Where we get some suspicion is around not his assassination but that of his assassin. Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald and yet he had Mob connections and was suffering a terminal illness. That's a 'funny that' moment but not enough on its own to confirm a conspiracy.

Then we have the assassination of an historical figure, Julius Caesar. That's not a theory as it can be easily proven from first-hand accounts from a number of different angles. Even the place of his cremation in the Forum of Rome is an unofficial shrine to this day. The uncomfortable fact to support this are the events which followed; culminating in the alliance of Marcus Antonius and Cleopatra VII against Augustus; resulting in the Battle of Actium and Augustus' conclusive victory (keeping this brief).

So, COVID-19 and the pandemic, conspiracy or conspiracy theory? Clearly CONSPIRACY. An absolute plethora of sources exist evidencing this conspiracy, along with the flawed science. Sources that are not directly connected to one another. Then there have been a number of happenings all of which deny everyday freedoms. As well, a healthcare system that seems hellbent on using the general population as guinea pigs without their informed consent. Resist.

COVID-19 World Takeover

This could make a good movie, novel or just your average garden conspiracy theory. Here goes:

COVID-19 is one of many stages in an alien takeover of planet earth. The invasion has been ongoing since 1918. The invaders are doing this by infiltrating and taking over the power structures that make human civilisation what it is, and from within destroying social order and the bonds that hold society together.

It all started with the First World War. That was a war between empires, a human war that came at the end of a massive arms race. The aliens saw their chance and seeded earth with the Spanish flu, this began the process to cull the planet of life forms, but also to sow distrust in one another, the beginning of social distancing.

Then we have Prohibition, the rise of Adolf Hitler, the Great Depression and the alien initiated Second World War. This was an even greater loss of life and an even bigger cull. All these events that followed the Spanish flu are alien in origin, they're infiltrating, and by hook or by crook, taking over.

Then after the Second World War we have the beginning of the end. The United Nations. Its purpose, to control and ultimately extinguish human life on earth. This final phase is the use of global pandemics to achieve certain objectives;

• To win unquestioning loyalty from the myopic and easily led plebes;
• To socially distance communities, to break down social bonds, break the social contract;
• In achieving distance, to prevent human reproduction, how can people meet and reproduce if no-one can leave their existing bubble?
• To control nutrition and access to water;
• To control thought, and access to information.

The final cull has begun folks. The next stage will be to require everyone to give a blood sample. We will be told the reason for this is to develop a vaccine for the Coronavirus. But in reality it will be to select a few for assimilation into alien society. The rest will be killed. The final takeover of earth will have been completed. That's when the alien invasion fleet will arrive. There will be no fight-back, as human life will have ended already and the few that do remain will be controlled and believe they're better off. They will have been fully assimilated.

This is your COVID-19 future. Who are these aliens? They are the current leaders. The UN, the US President Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron, Jacinda Ardern. They're aliens, not aliens having invaded a human host, as these aliens look just like humans from earth. However, they have one key difference, they don't believe in democracy, liberty, capitalism, freedom of choice, none of it.

This story resembles aspects of my latest novel, Dana Point which predates COVID-19. This tells the story of Augustus. He's from the planet Hercules, on the run and ends up back on earth. He's been to earth before because earth was seeded by Hercules with bipedal life forms we call Homo Sapiens. Hercules check up on earth from time to time, to see if it has advanced technologically enough to warrant assimilation. We find out that it has, and a hospital ship is being dispatched from Hercules which will carry out the blood testing and final selection. Augustus has issues of his own and he must deal with them before he can save earth. There is more to the novel than just this of course, but please read it by following the link at the top of my blog, or follow the embedded link below.

Dana Point

Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory

I know this guy who has that annoying habit of seeing things clearer than others, he is able to predict what will happen in the future. One example was when Jeffrey Epstein was arrested and locked up in 2019, he predicted he'd be dead by the end of the year. Boy, was he right.

Now one should assume that being in jail is relatively safe, especially when on suicide watch. What happened? He killed himself of course. My friend thinks this is a nonsense and believes this was staged, largely because Epstein funds have been moved into the bank he owned in the Caribbean. A bank that has never operated.

OK, that's fine, it doesn't mean he escaped though, someone with power of attorney could be doing the transactions, and in so doing removing assets from any potential civil claims. But did Epstein kill himself? Probably not, and that's where my friend nailed it, predicting Epstein's demise so accurately.

Now he's got another idea. That COVID-19 was an attack by the US on China. The tariffs weren't working, so they took the virus to China from the US Army's biological studies at Fort Detrick and planted it during the World Military Games in October 2019.

Since the outbreak the US has been on the front foot pointing the stick at China; their food habits, cleanliness, you name it. The US media has been particularly busy. Maybe too busy.

Iran and Italy are collateral damage. It got out of hand and now the whole thing has blown up in America's face. That's because China's authoritarian regime was able to get on top of the epidemic quickly, and they're first up best dressed. When the world recovers, they will be the one ready to buy everything. China may end up owning the world.

Will the west be ready to accept that? My friend thinks not, and that's why they'll go to war with China. Either that or wrap themselves in knots justifying economic sanctions. If calls for war or sanctions grow in the US and become accepted, my friend believes this will prove the virus originated in the United States. What do you think?

[Update @ 25/03/2020: It has been pointed out that the virus could not be a biological weapon as it has been proven it was not produced in a laboratory. I accept the second part, that it was not manufactured. However, simply saying a virus was not produced in a lab does not mean a virus could not be used for malicious purposes.

Trump: his saying that America must emerge soon from its harsh restrictions is a statement of the way it is really. America must emerge soon or it will wake up and find itself surpassed by China. If we look at the sheer volume of rhetoric emanating from the USA, all directed at China, and measure by that standard alone without looking at the science, it certainly does look as though this theory has legs. That is, the person doing all the finger pointing is often the perpetrator.]

[Update @ 21/10/2021: it is now fairly well accepted that the virus did originate in a lab, or at least it leaked from a lab there. What is still being contended is whether the US supplied this virus or funded research on coronaviruses that resulted in catastrophic outcomes. I'm giving my friend another pass mark on this, he's proven to be more right than wrong.]

War Looming in the Far East

I have already posted about the massive military build up occurring in Japan right now. You'll remember the US warship that ran into a cargo ship in Tokyo Bay. That likely happened because the US are starting to fall over one another. Also extremely busy are the Kanagawa area US Naval Air Facilities.

Now with President Trump issuing stark warnings to North Korea, I'm predicting war will result. Somewhere along the line the US made the decision and pushed the 'go' button.

This was my post in April 2017:

I've got friends living in Yokohama, Japan and they tell me the US Navy base at Yokosuka is the busiest they've ever seen it. Also extremely busy are the Kanagawa area US Naval Air Facilities. Planes are flying in 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Locals are complaining of the noise. Bear in mind all the various crises over the decades, but they say the bases have always just been ticking along despite that. Not now, now they're really ramping up. Based on this evidence I'd say the US is preparing for war and not just talking tough. Who will that war be with? North Korea is my suggestion and anyone else who takes their side.