By The Snoopman The Police dawn raids – code-named Operation Eight – of 15 October 2007 that were inflicted at several locations across New Zealand primarily to undermine Tūhoe’s chances of regaining their ancestral Native Estate, primarily the mountainous Te Urewera wilderness. New Zealand’s National Security State, including the Police, […]

A land dispute five minutes drive from Auckland International Airport became a news story of national significance in July and August of 2019. The fight led by whenua protection group, SOUL, or Save Our Unique Landscapes, to stop a transnational construction company’s proposed housing development on historically significant land, has […]

Words & Hikoi Photos by Snoopman, 26 August 2019 Ahi Kaa Kaitiaki cast as ‘Squatters’ Let me decipher how New Zealand’s Pākehā-dominated ruling class uses buck-passing, stealthy paternalism and polite institutional racism through the case of the land dispute at Ihumātao. The fight over the ownership of land at Ihumātao […]

Was the timing of the July 23 trespass notice served by 100 New Zealand Police on occupiers at Ihumātao simply a random date? Or was the date chosen for its historical significance to signal a coordinated advancement by New Zealand’s National Security State? This Ihumātao Class Lesson explores the possibility […]

The Bank of New Zealand brokered finance of £3 million from the Imperial Government to escalate the New Zealand Wars. With a chronic case of ‘terrible twos’, the BNZ also bankrolled the Colonial Government’s overdraft while war was waged on Māori in the Waikato, the Bay of Plenty, Taranaki and […]

In the Colonial-era, Freemasons controlled the political, commercial and martial power structures of New Zealand. Freemasons appointed their members of the brotherhood to key positions in the New Zealand Colony. Dispatch from Ihumātao #002 By Snoopman A Masonic Eviction Notice – 1863 On July 10th 1863, an eviction notice was […]

The Curious Recurrences of Prime Number Thirteen among Neo-Colonial Old Boys’ Network during Canterbury Earthquakes and Aftershocks Amid the Christchurch Earthquake after-shocks, the Christchurch Rebuild projects drew criticism that cronyism, collusion and corruption was occurring between the Christchurch City Council, the New Zealand Government and a big business ‘alliance’ called […]