A Big-Picture Perspective that provides the Missing Context on the TPP Treaty Steve Edwards, 7 April 2016   The International Treaty Examination on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Parliamentary Select Committee Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Holiday Inn, Ascot Ave, Mangere, Tāmaki Makaurau, New Zealand Tax Farm.   ===========   Superstructure for […]

 By Snoopman “The misuse of power is the very essence of tyranny.” – Frost/Nixon [Universal Studios]   Is ‘D’ for Democracy? Ever since New Zealand’s prime minister John Key drew his ‘silver fern’ flag on TVNZ’s ‘Breakfast’ show in 2010,  as a way to initiate the South Pacific tax haven’s […]

MEDIA RELEASE: For Immediate Dissemination (February 28, 2016).   Subject – The Matador: John Key & His Flag of Tricks The New Zealand government seriously risks failing to reach the threshold of sufficient consent over the Trans-Pacific Partnership Treaty. The conspicuous absence of effort by John Key’s administration to promote […]

By Snoopman [Updated 25 March 2016] Smelly Flag of Tricks Think of a smell. A fishy-smell. Now think of New Zealand’s Flag Change ‘debate’. Ever since New Zealand’s prime minister drew his ‘silver fern’ flag on TVNZ’s ‘Breakfast’ show in 2010, John Key has steadily morphed into Nu Zillun’s premiere […]

  Updated: 12 August 2015 (See details below or Click Link: It’s Our Future.org) New Zealand’s Minister of Trade Tim Groser asserts a persistently arrogant attitude and dangerously anti-democratic behaviour in regard to the ongoing Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) negotiations. Groser claims that the secrecy veil over the TPPA negotiations is necessary […]

Greenpeace’s climate action at New Zealand’s parliament failed to finger the blame at the primary cause of what is, in fact, planet-wide ecological collapse. Consequently their mono-causal presentation of the climate crisis, which is part of a much broader set of colliding crises, leads to oversimplified and dangerous solutions. Snoopman, […]

Drones. Dissent. Disturbances. And a screaming skull? Huh? Ooh riiight, it’s a newspaper columnist feigning liberal ideals while deploying Orwellian language! And the columnist is a wealthy property tycoon. Now Snoopman gets it. The property tycoon’s beef is with a social justice activist. Through his column, the property tycoon attempted to […]