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Aug 27Liked by Mick Hall

The Realm of New Zealand has returned to its roots as a colonial and sub-imperial power, adopting an aggressive attitude towards its own indigenous population, supporting French imperialism in Kanaky (though it is yet to go as far as offering the military support it gave to French colonialist forces in IndoChina) and attempting to bully the island states of the South Pacific into accepting the rule of the collective western powers headed by the United States of America. No longer even pretending to follow an "independent foreign policy" the regime now boasts that it is "in lock step" with its bevy of Five Eyes overlords. Meanwhile New Zealand academics in the pay of the NATO military alliance, such as Professor Anne-Marie Brady fiercely argue for the maintenance of French colonial rule in Kanaky through force, and the total subjection of New Zealand's national interest to those of the US within the Pacific region. This policy is as disgraceful as it is stupid and it can only end in humiliation for the regime.

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Aug 27Liked by Mick Hall

So China haven't been involved in a war for 45years not so the Americans I know who I'd rather have in the Pacific.

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Aug 27Liked by Mick Hall

Thanks Mick. Brady is a really nasty piece of work. I have some interesting documents OIA'd from police that shed a little light on her whacky accusations that 'the chinese' tried to murder her entire family by having some random vandal/her kids play with the valve stem caps on a couple of her tyres. Let me know if you'd be interested.

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Aug 27·edited Aug 27Liked by Mick Hall

Thanks for this, which I read on Consortium. Sad but unsurprising in the end. Fascinating how we (and much of the West for that matter) continue to apparently manage to both hate on China and have it as our major trading partner.

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Anyone might think the fact that the NZ government have been hiring into the various security agencies "retired" US military personnel may be having a deleterious impact and creating a paranoia echo chamber the government like to hear...

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