Not good news @nzlabour @NZGreens ….YOU caused this to happen. You encouraged it, you condoned it and now the people of this country will suffer…again. And to think this is an election year…… https://t.co/NeSOtpuU6k

— Corina Shields (@AuntyHeihei) March 26, 2023

Not just the Labour and Green Parties, but also this country’s shameful Mainstream media must take their share of the blame.

from Bassett, Brash & Hide

An unruly mob in Albert Park has catapulted New Zealand into the global headlines with ugly images that may become iconic in the debate about the dangers of transgenderism.

Bravo Kellie-Jay. You did the job that needed to be done.

For all the talk in the days preceding Keen’s arrival in New Zealand of countering free speech with ‘more free speech’, that was never going to happen. We don’t have The Oxford Union or Speaker’s Corner. That’s not how we debate ideas down under.

The die was cast from the moment our Immigration Minister, Michael Wood, announced that Keen would be permitted to enter the country despite, in his words, her “inflammatory, vile and incorrect world views”. The Minister declared that he would prefer it if Keen “never set foot in New Zealand” and added, “I find many of her views repugnant, and am concerned by the way in which she courts some of the most vile people and groups around including white supremacists.”

The message had been sent — by all means, come to New Zealand, but you’ll be on your own. Keen’s hotel cancelled her booking as she was mid-flight to New Zealand, and her security arrangements were also cancelled without explanation.

When Keen arrived at Albert Park on Saturday morning she was met by an unruly mob of activists hellbent on preventing her from speaking. Exactly who they were, it’s difficult to tell. Among the transgender rights activists were at least five Members of Parliament, mixing with autogynophiles, fetishists, so-called ‘allies’ and thugs spoiling for a fight.

No sooner had Keen walked into the Band Rotunda in the corner of Albert Park, than she was doused in tomato soup. Within minutes the barriers were thrown aside as the mob encircled the Rotunda in ugly scenes that have now made their way around the globe on social media. It was an increasingly volatile situation.

Keen had no chance of speaking. Her mere presence in the Rotunda was enough to enrage the mob. But her point had been made. The same groups demanding recognition as women for the purpose of such things as sport and healthcare as well as access to women’s-only spaces were the same angry mob violently assaulting a relatively small group of women in a usually quiet park in central Auckland.

The police loitered by the perimeter of the park, staring at their boots or their phones as the chaos unfolded meters away from them. But then again their job was not to keep the two groups apart, or keep the peace. They weren’t going to interfere with the mob justice that was being meted out in the park. Instead, they were no more than taxi-drivers, waiting for Keen to force her way out of the angry crowd and onto Princes Street where the police obliged with a lift to her hotel and then the airport.

New Zealand’s governing parties and media could not have been more closely aligned with the thugs. Reminiscent, in fact, of Mussolini’s (fascist) Italy.

It was shocking to watch and images of those fifteen minutes have now been viewed many millions of times and have been commented on by international media and personalities with audiences many times the population of New Zealand.

We have indeed contributed to the global debate about transgender rights — but only by showcasing how intolerant this group is, and how violently they react to ideas that challenge the perceived orthodoxy in our South Pacific hermit kingdom. It has cast a spotlight not only on the violent undertones that exist within parts of the transgender movement; but also on New Zealand’s own appalling record of violence, particularly with regard to domestic violence.

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Biden’s 75 car motorcade in Canada to address global warming. #irony
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— @amuse (@amuse) March 24, 2023

Typical Globalist-Climatist hypocrits.

Perhaps it’s because the mine owners are black, so it’s OK in their racist dogma?

CONGO – unregulated mines employ thousands of workers, mining cobalt for batteries, so NET ZERO can be ‘achieved’ & we feel good.

These mines often collapse & trapped workers are dug out by hand, if they are lucky.

But hey it saves the planet, right ?

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— Bernie's Tweets (@BernieSpofforth) March 25, 2023

by Michael Johnston from the Breaking Views blog

For a brief moment last year, it looked as if the Ministry of Education was finally going to embrace methods of teaching literacy and numeracy supported by scientific evidence. They published a new literacy and numeracy strategy that made reference to structured teaching methods.

Structured literacy works because it takes account of the nature of human memory and attention, and its limitations. The Ministry has spent more than two decades ignoring mounting evidence in its favour.

To be sure, the new strategy was hardly a full-throated endorsement of structured teaching, nor an especially well-articulated one. Still, I was heartened by their stated intention to develop a Common Practice Model (CPM) incorporating a structured approach to teaching these key skills. As its name implies, a CPM is a guide to teaching methods to be followed by every teacher in the country.

The CPM document was published last week. And it does mention structured literacy. Briefly. Near the end.

The trouble is, the rest of the document constitutes a doubling down on the same failed, and sometimes ludicrous, methods the Ministry has championed for years.

Under those methods, a generation of young New Zealanders has been badly let down. A third of our fifteen-year-olds cannot read at a basic adult standard. Two thirds cannot write at a similar standard and nearly half lack basic numeracy skills.

The CPM should have contained a detailed description of structured literacy and numeracy teaching and nothing else. Instead, the methods we so badly need our teachers to adopt are swamped by such things as ‘critical pedagogies’, ‘culturally responsive pedagogies’ and ‘multiliteracies’.

All of these are distractions and some will actively undermine any attempt to use a structured approach alongside them.

There isn’t the space here to describe all the ways in which these ‘pedagogies’ will harm, rather than foster, sound learning. I will confine myself to one highlight – that of ‘critical maths’.

The CPM asserts that “Ākonga [students] are encouraged to interrogate dominant discourses and assumptions, including that maths is benign, neutral, and culture-free”.

All this before they even know what mathematics is.

There is little enough time as it is during the school years for young people to develop basic mathematical proficiency. I would like to suggest to the Ministry that loading this kind of nonsense on top of that task guarantees further educational failure.

But, once again, the Ministry has shown that it simply isn’t listening.

Dr Michael Johnston has held academic positions at Victoria University of Wellington for the past ten years. He holds a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Melbourne. This article was published HERE

Another gem from NZ’s best cartoonist.

by Geoffrey Churchman

This book appeared in 2021 and for the most part was written about the orgy of arson, vandalism, looting, serious violence and general destruction that Antifa spearheaded in many American cities in mid 2020. Antifa thereby earned itself the reputation of America’s most dangerous domestic terrorist organisation.

With the violence that we saw on Saturday 25 March by Antifa members in Auckland and the certainty that the NZ Green Party is in collusion with this lot, it’s a disturbing picture of what could happen here.

The book makes clear that Antifa comprises seriously nasty people who are out to cause meyhem and badly injure those they dislike as much as they can.

Antifa use a variety of weapons of the sort that you’d expect NZ’s gangs to use, but are additionally fond of molotov coktails and there have been cases of them carrying — and using — guns.

The author Andy Ngo is from Portland, Oregon, the city which is the American base of Antifa and a journalist who was physically attacked in the streets by Antifa in the summer of 2019 while covering a protest, leaving him hospitalized with a brain hemorrhage from which he has yet to fully recover. He’s been repeatedly harassed, beaten and “doxed” because of his efforts, and naturally called a “Nazi”, “fascist” etc.

This exposé, a number 1 bestseller in America, is a comprehensively researched reportage of the organisation’s history and tactics. When Andy Ngo was attacked, most people assumed it was an isolated incident. But those who’d been following Ngo’s reporting in outlets like the New York Post and Quillette knew that the attack was only the latest in a long list of the organisation’s crimes.

In Unmasked, Ngo tells the story of this violent extremist movement from the beginning. He includes interviews with former followers and people who’ve been attacked by them. The book contains documents obtained by the author and published for the first time.

Andy Ngo was present at some protests and riots in the summer of 2020 and even spent a week in Seattle’s so-called Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ). He says: “violence is a feature, not a bug, of Antifa’s ideology. In fact, they venerate violence.” And behind all this violence the close observer can discern “a plan to destroy the nation-state, America in particular, to bring about a revolution that leads to their vision of utopia.” Moreover, Ngo postulates that “Antifa is a phantom movement by design. It is leaderless and structured to be functional through small, independent organizations, known as affinity groups, and individuals.”

Apart from the months-long mayhem in Portland, Seattle and other places in the summer of 2020, there is coverage of prior incidents. For example, Connor Betts was a mass shooter who killed nine people in Dayton, Ohio on 4 August 2019. Betts had extremely close ties to Antifa, and his killing spree was possibly politically motivated (he didn’t leave a manifesto). Other notable incidents are the firebombing of the ICE detention center in Washington by Willem Van Spronsen and a shooting by Charlie Landeros. On these occasions fortunately only the perpetrators died, though both could have ended in plenty of bloodshed. Landeros came to his daughter’s school armed and prepared to kill, and almost accidentally shot her during an altercation with police officers. Both he and Van Spronsen were Antifa members.

The plethora of riots, shootings and other incidents would be horrible enough in and of itself. But one theme throughout the book is that, as in NZ now under this government, the perpetrators get free reign from sympathetic politicians in government and some law enforcement bosses to continue their violence.

“Portland’s left-wing political monoculture,” Ngo writes, “means that the Multnomah County District Attorney’s office has to make politically calculated prosecutions that are favorable to the city’s vocal woke populace. Justice is not blind in Portland. Antifa and BLM rioters are let go almost as quickly as they can be processed through jail.”

Portland’s mayor Ted Wheeler — the equivalant of Ms Tory Whanau of Wellington — tweeted after the first night of rioting and looting in his city: “We talked about agitation—yes even violent agitation and how it has historically occurred with purpose and resulted in change that has moved this country forward.” Mayor Wheeler is less supportive of firm resolve on the part of the authorities, however, and has no qualms publicly reprimanding his police chiefs for taking a common-sense approach to enforcing the law — like, say, using pepper spray to prevent their police stations from being looted and burned to the ground.

Ngo shows that left-wing radicalism has been festering in academia for over half a century now. He devotes several pages to the origins of “Critical Race Theory”, and particularly to Herbert Marcuse’s infamous 1965 essay “Repressive Tolerance”, which laid the foundation for the idea that “we should not allow perceived intolerant ideas the space to be expressed and should be more accepting of extreme beliefs on the left.”

As in NZ, Antifa has a large sympathetic network in American academia, politics, media and the legal world. It it aims to further its goals through these tentacles as much as through violence. Lawyers belonging to the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), “a legal group with historical ties to the Communist Party,” wage continuous “lawfare” against the authorities. The Southern Poverty Law Center “has establishment liberal and media legitimacy as an arbiter of ‘hate groups,’ but too often it actually serves to launder Antifa’s ideology into the mainstream.”

Furthermore, Antifa groups are able to spread falsehoods about every violent police action against them or the allied Black Lives Matter, or every police shooting of a black person, conveying the narrative that “fascist” authorities committed gross and unnecessary violence against innocent and unarmed people. One group sends out social media posts about an incident, sometimes paired with manipulatively edited video footage, which are then shared by Antifa chapters around the country. Before long, they make their way into the MSM, which all too often swallow this propaganda whole without any prior scrutiny.

Where does Antifa get its funding from? Mostly from George Soros, a billionaire and perennial Democratic donor and bogeyman for conservatives and libertarians, Soros gave a whopping $128,485,971 to Democrats in last year’s Midterm cycle which far exceeded what he contributed during the 2018 midterm election when he donated only $20 million.

One feature that does raise questions in the NZ context, considering what happened on Ash Wednesday 2022 outside Parliament, is the organisation’s relationship with the police. Many Antifa types in America are fond of the “1312” or “ACAB” acronym which stands for “All Cops Are Bastards” and police are at the centre of their fixation.

But in Wellington, did Antifa collaborate with police chief Coster and his henchmen on 2 March 2022 to smear the protestors in the MSM? Libertarians wanting freedom of choice are hated by Antifa, a hatred shared by Coster. It’s certainly plausible.

What about the situation in Kapiti? I have made inquiries and been given some names, but like the Green Party in our district, the membership is fortunately not a large one, no more than 30 and likely less

It’s a different situation in Wellington where the membership is certainly in the hundreds.

Green Party/ Antifa members now have brains full of spike protein from repeated jabs with that substance, and many are certain to be abusers of other substances too, which combined with their violent ideology is most disconcerting. Declaring Antifa a subversive organisation is something which the next ACT plus National government must look into

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“They’re haters and fond of violence like us so I think they’re on our side, Dear Leader.”