Smug rich clown & Eye of Mordor play golf – why we should be concerned

By
Martyn Bradbury
-
20
3

BdA3QwNIEAAVHpf

Obama is the most powerful man in the world. His timetable is decided down to the second. For him to spend any time one on one with the our leader of our country with minimal officials present should send shivers down our spine.

Obama wants NZ to sign the TPPA, Obama wants his vast mass surveillance program to continue unabated in NZ, and Obama wants to expand American power into the Pacific. Obama also wants Kim Dotcom (who has a nuclear bomb currently pointed at Key with his March court case). With so many critical issues between both nations, allowing the two of them under the pretense of a game of golf to spend so much unrestricted time with each other when serious issues of our national security are at stake is down right dangerous.

The fact that no one has actually asked what the bloody hell they were talking about is another indictment on our slow moving media.

The President of the United States doesn’t just ‘do golf’.

Snowden will release some very damning information about NZ this year, at about the time Kim Dotcom’s court case is on, to think Key and Obama weren’t talking about that seems naive in the extreme.

RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR

20 COMMENTS

  1. Yes, I agree. It will be more than a game of golf. The “unidentified guest” and the US president will be discussing policy along the lines of the possibilities of selling out more Kiwis and NZ sovereignty at the same time. Also on the agenda will be the treacherous TPP, as well as the Edward Snowden revelations re NZ’s involvement in spying on behalf of the US, Key’s main pay masters! All issues Kiwis should be very concerned about.

    And let us not forget too, a lot of deals can be sealed during a game of golf, for the benefit of both parties!

    Kim Dotcom’s March case against John Key should be the expose` of the year, given the lies Key has told to parliament and the public, re his (no) knowledge of Dotcom’s existence, prior to the 2012 raids on the latter’s residence. After which, Key might be gone much sooner than later. Not to Hawaii though, but to a reserved room at the Serco accommodation suites in Mt Eden! Bring it on!

  2. NZ . The New State of Israel and a safe haven for the soulless and super rich .
    I heard an old American golfer say on tha tee vee that New Zealand was the last Paradise . When you look at dirty , filthy America with it’s power , porn and poverty culture and the mayhem it’s caused globally I wonder what he could have meant by that ?
    jonky-stien has no sense of patriotism towards his country or his greater whanau . As we all know by now , the thing that makes his little nob vibrate is the thought of power with its associate spin off ; money .

    But what are the alternatives ?

    The Crown ?
    We hate the Crown . We think they’re lazy , stupid , goofy , gap toothed morons don’t we ? That’s how our media portrays them certainly . Rich parasites living off the worker and with their ridiculous pageantry , culture , class and style .

    Maori people harken back to the colonial days of invasion and gun battles . They bemoan having been gunned down or shot up . Of being oppressed and down trodden . Well , my being Irish I can certainly relate to that .

    But if you think the Crown is the nastier beasty than corporate America then think again . Think more Palestinians / Jews .

    Going it alone ?
    Ahhh ? Pop guns and scowling , tattooed faces are little defense against an aircraft carrier I’m afraid boys .
    We’d last about as long as a crippled , plucked chicken in a cage full of hungry pig dogs .

    jonky’s playing his games and my fear is he’s soon to not give one small flying fuck about what you and I think .

    I’d love to know who took that photograph by the way .

    Oh , and to help keep some sense of relevance to jonkys smiling little face beside Mr Giggle the Big Clown is this … Jonky has your money in his pocket and The Big Clown has jonky in his .

    • Going it alone ? Ahhh ? Pop guns and scowling , tattooed faces are little defense against an aircraft carrier I’m afraid boys .

      An aircraft carrier is a concern but not as major as you think. With the right investment NZ could easily defend itself from all comers including a US invasion fleet.

      • He’s a bit of an overstater, your war nerd, but he’s basically right. The cost-effectiveness is the big clue – How many surface ships do you get for a $100 million and how many missiles? Gets beyond a 100:1 and the surface ship is history in the same way as the Bismarck with aircraft. Same thing happened with super fighters and SAMs.

        The real weapons of modern warfare remain light heavy – rifle companies and small missiles. Countries that choose to be independent must be prepared to roll their own if the need arises. These arms are also what you need for peacekeeping.

        We should be thankful I suppose that the extraordinarily stupid Gnats seem to have grown out of their frigate obsessions for the moment.

    • “I heard an old American golfer say on tha tee vee that New Zealand was the last Paradise .”

      Yep, it was prominently show on the TV news a few days back!

      Indeed this should send alarm bells ringing in New Zealander’s heads. That is those that care and want their country to be more independent and to be taken seriously on the global “stage”.

      There are those that want to turn New Zealand into something like another US State, I presume, at least in an economic sense. Yes, there are golfers here, that aspire to make this the prime destination for rich golfers from the US and worldwide. There are others who would build monorails, large new ferry-terminals, cruise-ship harbours, and scene parks and what else here, even in schedule 4 land areas, to turn New Zealands biggest natural asset, the green, still relatively clean environment and scenery into hard “dollares”, to fill their pockets.

      John Key is their friend, advocate and messiah, so to say.

      The off-shore drilling by overseas oil and gas explorers is just the beginning of things to come, same as the fracking going on in other areas. There are big plans in the drawers, to create massive marine seafood farms, large cattle farms on land, endless more dairy production to be done on equally intensified basis.

      While some of it may make economic sense, there are also serious risks, but the placement of more government friendly key media persons in certain public broadcasting roles, the appointment of them for leading television presenter roles, the cleansing of print media of the “old”, “stuffy” critical writers, and the corporatisation of media in general, alongside the killing off of alternative public media, that is also part of the agenda, it seems at least.

      Networks are the ways that governments change things, and same as Labour did in their days “wisely” choose certain top key people for top roles, the Nats do the same, with resoluteness.

      Check out the present Health and Disability Commissioner, and how little complaints he and his staff actually firmly deals with, check out the appointment for the new Privacy Commissioner, watch, what will happen at the Ombudsmen’s Office, watch how CEOs in SOEs and government departments are appointed, and watch much else, and it becomes clear, that the ground is being prepared, for less “ripples” and “challenges” by the public.

      Now it is illegal to protest near off-shore drilling and exploration vessels, the law is firm on what is allowed on streets, roads and in public spaces. More bans, controls and surveillance.

      And the public is being softened up, presented with facts before much debate happens, and it happens as swiftly as many law changes that occurred last year.

      Key and his Nats will govern with a firm hand, deals have been and will be struck, with US corporates, with the US government agencies (incl. the NSA), and all is being done to see through the TPPA a.s.a.p., and to deal to Dotcom, so he will be “neutralised” in joint US-NZ efforts.

      As for the GCSB, I am sure, that there has been more going on than most would dare to suspect, but Key has the last say and controls on much, so we will never know.

      A game of golf looking so innocently, that is just the surface impression. Big discussions and deals will have been made between Key and Obama, possibly over a drink or meal after the greens.

      But who cares, there are new infotainment and other shows to start on television soon, twitter will entertain us with the newest tweets of ministers, MPs and wannabe journalists, and that will be more “important” than what Key may be up to, I suppose, I fear, I regret.

    • As usual you put it perfectly country boy. Apart from the points already made, what also really alarmed me was the PR that DonKey got for the upcoming election. When you combine this photo-op with the fact that the fucking royals are coming in an election year, I’m afraid it will unfairly advantage him and his cronies in the election. If those fucking arseholes get in this time you can kiss goodbye to our lovely paradise. And who told the so-called royals we wanted them to come? The least they can do is pay their own way, but I would prefer them not to come at all. It’s high time we became a republic.

  3. The rich and powerful continue to “play” and plot, whilst the poor and powerless continue to struggle on…

    Oh, middle classes throughout the world, if only you raised your heads from reality TV programming and your penchant for non-stop shopping, and looked around you – you’d be aghast at what our society has become…

    Meanwhile, pressure must be applied to Labour to throw out the TPPA should it be signed. This document cannot be allowed to stand.

    Otherwise the New Right (National, et al) to keep doing these things each time they become government. Neo-liberation by incremental, little steps.

    Neo-liberalsm cannot be rolled backl, as Cunliffe states, unless these things are undone at every opportunity.

    Labour must state it’s position on this problem.

    • Meanwhile, pressure must be applied to Labour to throw out the TPPA should it be signed. This document cannot be allowed to stand.

      True but Labour won’t do that and National knows it.

      Neo-liberalsm cannot be rolled backl, as Cunliffe states, unless these things are undone at every opportunity.

      We need the 1980s again but in reverse but Labour won’t do that.

      The only way NZ can rebuild it’s prosperity is to disengage from the world financial system, to ban foreign ownership outright and to build up our own capabilities again. Essentially, we need to become self-sufficient.

  4. This game of golf was reported on stuff.co.nz and there were comments from readers stating how wonderful this was for our country, how ridiculous many people are. Martyn, I think your analysis is spot on, this is not a holiday game of golf, but yet another stepping stone to NZ becoming a lapdog for the United States: spying, TPPA. Dotcom, tax breaks for Hollywood (cannot understand why this government goes week in the knees when Hollywood comes calling) – and you are right why are our media not doing some analysis on all this – it has me worried

    • How many of the “comments from readers” on popular news websites are actually written by paid staff from corporate PR companies, or even auto-generated by PHP spambots? In the days of print newspapers and magazines you had to prove you were a real person to get your letters printed (while protecting the privacy of correspondents, and even sometimes allowing non-de-plumes). Perhaps news websites which want to be taken seriously should look at doing the same?

  5. America doesn’t hold our values anymore ,why does our Government give the American regime unquestioned support ?

    We must fight TPP(A) and we must get everyone we know to vote at the next election !

    Democracy is being stolen from us by those meant to represent us !

  6. I’ll chance offending someone.

    Were there instances during the game of lipping the hole. (spelt p-p not c-k of course.)

  8. Martyn – did you not hear what Mr Key said. That they discussed matters that were too important for him to share. My 86 year old mainstream mother immediately opined that it gave them the chance to talk about things with no one around

Comments are closed.