They moved at breath-taking speed, selling off billions of dollars worth of the county’s strategic assets, built up over almost a century by the New Zealand’s taxpayers.
They privatised these assets, which were sold at bargain-basement prices over 30 years ago and they are now in the hands of multi-national corporations that have made fortunes exploiting the very people they were stolen from.
In his book ‘UNfinished Business’ former Minister of Finance Roger Douglas virtually admitted he had no mandate for his actions. He said he had to make the changes quickly before the public woke up to what he was doing, because he knew they would not have been accepted it, had they cottoned on to what he was doing.
Many people never woke up to what Douglas and his Labour cronies had put into place. Their plan was to destroy New Zealand and over the years they, and the National Government to a certain degree, tried to continue the theft. They targeted the electricity industry calling them ‘electricity reforms’ but didn’t quite succeed. They privatised some boards around the country but a few administrators who were awake to their plan were able to form trusts where large majorities of consumers have to agree to proposals to sell.
The Labour Government now has its sights on the country’s water with its so-called Three Waters Project in its most recent effort to wrench ownership of assets from the consumers, but that is a story for another dayin the near future.
An area that is looming as a major concern for New Zealanders is at local government-level: Labour and National, aided by the smaller parties that have been co-opted to government through the MMP system, have been slowly and deviously reducing the people’s power by amalgamating small councils throughout the country into larger organisations, mostly against the wishes of the communities involved, and systematically taking away the voices of the people.
So let’s take a look at what has taken place and see where it is all leading:
In 1989, Labour MP Michael Basset was appointed to begin a centralisation process for New Zealand called “Local Body Reforms”. Sir Brian Elwood, former Mayor of Palmerston North and an unsuccessful National candidate in the 1981 Palmerston North electorate, was chosen to lead the Local Government Commission in reducing the number of councils from 800 to less than 100.
Then, in 1992, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters was interviewed on the Australian TV programme, ‘Four Corners’ (not screened in New Zealand). Mr Peters told the show that New Zealand was being used as the Western World’s most daring economic experiment “while the nation watched on uncritically”.
In 1997, the Government was aligning New Zealand to the whims of the United Nations, unbeknown to the electorate. Even the ‘NZ Local Government Magazine’ which currently reaches 78 councils, their contractors and suppliers published a story about how councils were required to implement UN Agenda 21.
Consecutive National and Labour Governments have committed New Zealand to UN Agenda 21 – 2030 despite having no mandate from the people. Six councils: Auckland, Hamilton, New Plymouth, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin are members of the UN-backed organisation called ICLEI( Local Governments for Sustainability), a global network of 2,500 local and regional governments in 125 countries “committed to sustainable urban development”.
The joining of ICLEI came about during term of the Key National Government in their hell-for-leather push to amalgamate the Rodney and Franklin Districts into the 2009 created ‘Auckland Super City’.
The development of the ‘Super City’, also a part of the UN centralisation plan, had its origins during the Helen Clarke Labour years when she set up a Royal Commission on Auckland Governance. The Key government simply continued this plan using minority party ACT leader Rodney Hide as the scapegoat. Hide became a very brief ‘Minister of Local Government’, ignoring residents of Rodney and Franklin who conducted public protest meetings in both districts (extremely similar to what Nanaia Mahuta is doing now over Three Waters).
Billed as “New Zealand’s bold experiment”, the Government set up their “Super City” in 2010 with Len Brown as Mayor. Once again without public consultation, legislation was made to install an unelected body to the council. This was called the Independent Maori Statutory Board.
This board is made up of nine people, and its activities are obscure. For the past 11 years, members of this board have been taking an average of $100,000 salary each from the ratepayers of Auckland. This is from an overall annual budget of $3 million.
New Zealand is using UN Agenda 21/ 2030 as its platform, confirmed by Prime Minister Ardern on UN television, and we are seeing a continuation of transformation, disruption, the transferring of democratic power from locals and individuals to the global governance system, of which former Prime Minister Jim Bolger described in his 1992 Auckland speech, as the “New World Order”.
In 2011 the late American activist, Rosa Koire, among the first to expose Agenda 21, published a book on this subject titled “Behind the Green Mask”, which is fundamental to what Western Governments are doing: Agenda 21 is an action plan, a blueprint to control every aspect of life on the planet: all water, land, minerals, means of production, food, energy, law enforcement, construction, education and, of course, information. Indeed there are growing concerns around the restrictions and laws towards whole populations with the current pandemic.
I believe that the United Nations Agenda 21/2030 is ultimately about destroying our ability to have a voice or representative government, to entirely deconstruct one’s ability to be free and independent.
Prediction: Within 10 years, at the rate Labour and National are working in alignment with the United Nations, there will be no local council. Everything will be unrecognisable whether centralised, or privatised; all given new names.
Klaus Schwab, head of the World Economic Forum has predicted that by 2030 “you will own nothing and you’ll be happy”.
He is probably right.
